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The SAGE Handbook of Political Sociology offers a comprehensive and contemporary look at this evolving field of study. The focus is on political life itself and the chapters, written by a highly-respected and international team of authors, cover the core themes which need to be understood in order to study political life from a sociological perspective, or simply to understand the political world. The two volumes are structured around five key areas: PART 1: TRADITIONS AND PERSPECTIVES PART 2: CORE CONCEPTS PART 03: POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES AND MOVEMENTS PART 04: TOPICS PART 05: WORLD REGIONS This future-oriented and cross-disciplinary handbook is a landmark text for students and scholars interested in the social investigation of politics.
Chapter 9: International Relations and Political Sociology
International Relations and Political Sociology
Sociologists have traditionally paid scant attention to International Relations (IR) as a social-scientific discipline1. A small, but telling piece of evidence on sociologists’ lack of interest in IR is the absence of an article on this subject in the fifteen-volume International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences (Sills, 1968). The successor edition, extended to twenty-six volumes, included only two entries on IR and a few more on area studies (Smelser & Balter, 2001); the most recent edition ignored IR altogether, containing not a single entry on the discipline, but included area studies (Wright, ...
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