... at least, I can think of what my speech would be like.
“Dear professors, lecturers, deans and everyone else!
Thank you for this magnificent opportunity to express my deep gratitude!
First of all, thank you for helping me understand that international relations and political science are not really science. The amount of biases, stereotypes, scholasticism, combined with great politicization and ideologization, lack of expertise in vast areas and unproven belief in the ability to predict ...
Dear Reader!
I am terribly sorry for such a delay in my posts, which was caused by a progressive disorder (international?).
The entry that you will find here is devoted mainly to the issue of getting a graduate degree in international relations (or a similar field). This post is written by Dr. Fox, while he was still a graduate student, so, please, be sceptic. As much as you can.
P.S. I assume, Sir Popper will soon respond to it.
[14.04.2010]
[7:82 p.m.]
Fox
My ...
... in that way)?
All said above brings up a long-disputed topic of arts-sciences controversy, or dichotomy (or polarity, if you like that word). I suppose you are familiar with such theory as positivism. Today, there is a rather vivid tendency among social sciences to use ideas from real sciences (math, physics, etc.) in an attempt to make this body of knowledge more scientific. Positivism may be good, but you should use this metaphorical way of describing politics with great care.
One of problems ...
... Reader!
I have no intention to disappoint you or annoy you in case you were honestly looking for something about bipolarity in international relations, so this post will be dedicated, in some measure, to the well-known concept of ‘bipolarity’- ... ... friend,
There is a lot of stuff I’d like to argue with you about (like ‘polarity’, complex systems, math in social sciences), but I’ll stick to one thing – typologies.
It’s obvious that when you do science, you need ...