The Monologue of "Science"

Abstract

The task of this forum is to further dialogue and synthesis regarding international relations theory. Although in agreement with the general idea behind this forum and grateful for the emphasis on concrete research driven by actual political problems, this author, nevertheless, believes that the questions providing the rationale for this forum are too narrowly focused on these ongoing debates and their concomitant pathologies. The thrust of the questions is that dialogue and synthesis are all of one cloth, that everything can be debated out, and that some integral new whole is likely to emerge to command our assent if we all do our homework. But considering how seldom debates establish such a consensus, it might be useful to take this experiential datum as a starting point and to inquire into the reasons why communication across, and often even within, different theoretical perspective is so difficult. To that extent, the remarks...

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