Description
Critical methodologies are becoming increasingly popular in the discipline of International Relations (IR). This is not only due to the vast array of new areas the discipline has moved into since the ‘Inter-Paradigm Debate’ but also because of the increasingly common awareness of the complex and interrelated nature of the phenomena we study. Yet moving beyond the dominance of mainstream and positivist approaches has taken considerable time and effort – and many new to the discipline lament access to a viable alternative. This panel is an attempt to overcome this problem. The panel outlines a number of alternative and critical methods to IR by bringing together an exciting and diverse array of critical methods and methodologies for the study of world politics, including feminist, post-colonial, dialectical and qualitative approaches, amongst others.
