Re:International Relations Theory Doesn’t Understand Culture
by 0815test on Monday April 01, 2019 @09:01PM
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Or maybe, "culture" theorists don't understand IR-- or economic development, for that matter. Culture, taken in a broad sense, explains almost everything about which societies become economically successful and which don't! As Deirdre McCloskey's work on the 'bourgeois virtues' makes quite clear, this is true over a huge range of scales, from the fairly small and local to the very large.
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Re:International Relations Theory Doesn’t Understand Culture
by mannykannot on Monday April 01, 2019 @10:00PM
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I am not following you here. If, as you say, "culture, taken in a broad sense, explains almost everything about which societies become economically successful and which don't", then the causality there would be from culture to IR, IR would therefore be dependent on culture, and IR should pay attention to culture. Are you saying that cultures are influenced by ideas from other nations? That seems plausible to me, but that would not make it an either/or situation (either IR does not get culture or culture theory does not get IR.)