Ku dialogicznemu pluralizmowi w nauce o stosunkach międzynarodowych – o roli, substancji i konsekwencjach podstaw metateoretycznych w praktyce badawczej
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https://doi.org/10.12797/Politeja.23.2026.101.03Keywords:
metatheory, theory, state, international relations, dialogical pluralismAbstract
TOWARDS DIALOGICAL PLURALISM IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS – ON THE ROLE, SUBSTANCE AND CONSEQUENCES OF METATHEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS IN RESEARCH PRACTICE
The aims of the article are the following: (1) to point out the rung occupied by metatheory on the ladder of abstraction of the actual work of International Relations scholars; (2) to present a typology of possible metatheoretical approaches to the study of international reality; (3) to provide examples of classic IR works that are based on specific metatheoretical approaches; (4) to help particular scholars to identify their own metatheoretical bases using the aforementioned typology and examples; and (5) to propose an approach allowing ideas to flow between approaches based on different metatheories while maintaining the integrating role of the discipline.
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