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La paz en las Relaciones Internacionales (Paz y seguridad)
Oliver Richmond analiza en este libro las implicaciones de las múltiples interpretaciones del concepto de paz en las distintas corrientes de la teoría de las Relaciones Internacionales. Desmenuza los 'grandes debates' y las distintas teorías del realismo, el idealismo, el pluralismo, el liberalismo, el marxismo, la teoría crítica, el constructivismo y los enfoques posestructuralistas, dedicando también espacio a disciplinas vinculadas, como la economía política internacional o los estudios sobre la paz y los conflictos.
353 pages, Paperback
Published March 29, 2019
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July 9, 2016
"Peace in International Relations" is a book good enough if you are interested in, well, the concepts in its title: peace and IR and how they relate to each other. Richmond does a good job in bringing different concepts to the reader and in introducing how "peace" has been seen in IR from the more idealist vision to the more structuralist. He talks about how the view has been influenced during the years by different situations: Cold War or the War on Terror, and how in the last years gender, arts or education have started to have a say in both aspects: how peace can be, and what really constitutes IR.
Sadly, the books suffers from the usual suspects: it is a little bit dense (it becomes more and more as it advances, but never becomes obscure), the style is not the most engaging ever and may be difficult to read, and well, it kind of becomes repetitive (especially if you have ever read anything about the subject, as it goes over some concepts that are known to anyone who knows about it). On top of that, the book seems to have escaped the editing process, with some random mistakes, like disappearing articles (probably not in favor of peace).
The reader will come out better informed. But it could be better.
6/10
Sadly, the books suffers from the usual suspects: it is a little bit dense (it becomes more and more as it advances, but never becomes obscure), the style is not the most engaging ever and may be difficult to read, and well, it kind of becomes repetitive (especially if you have ever read anything about the subject, as it goes over some concepts that are known to anyone who knows about it). On top of that, the book seems to have escaped the editing process, with some random mistakes, like disappearing articles (probably not in favor of peace).
The reader will come out better informed. But it could be better.
6/10
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