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A ONE-WEEK COURSE WITH KENNETH WALTZ AT THE DANISH PH.D. SCHOOL
Kenneth Waltz:
Theory and practice in International Politics
Dates: 2005/05/09 to 2005/05/13
Responsible: Kenneth N. Waltz, Columbia
University
Course website: please click here
ECTS website: please click here
The discipline of international relations is contentious and disagrees about
most things.
One point where almost everybody will agree is that the most influential
theorist of the last 50 years is Kenneth N. Waltz. Not only did he device
one of the most distinct and powerful theories, neo-realism, he also influenced
all other schools and debates by setting the terms for how to think about
theory in the field.
The Danish Ph.D. School is proud to announce a one-week course with Kenneth
Waltz.
The emphasis will be as much on devising and evaluating theories as on the
specifics of realist theories.
The course runs over five full days with discussion each afternoon of papers
by the participants.
A NEW BOOK BY AMITAI ETZIONI
From Empire to Community: A New Approach
to International Relations, a new book
by section member Amitai Etzioni,
looks at how we can rethink and restructure the global architecture by blending
ideas from the left and the right and adopting both Eastern and Western
values.
As the book shows, key to this new world order will be the creation of transnational
bodies, charged with addressing those issues that effect all of us from
terrorism and security to environmental safety and human rights.
From Empire to Community has received
a warm reception by renowned scholars and leading public officials, such
as Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende who called the book "a pioneering
work of vital importance to the formation of a new way of international
thinking."
Amitai Etzioni is a university professor
at The George Washington University
where he directs The Institute for Communitarian
Policy Studies.
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