2021
DOI: 10.22182/spm.7042020.6
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Reflexivity in the Study of Warfare: Is There Added Value for the Discipline of International Relations?

Abstract: The article examines whether reflectivist approach to epistemology in the study of warfare can amend some weaknesses of the rationalist/positivist canon of mainstream International Relations (IR) theories. The author argues for the existence of a new epistemic situation for the IR researcher: an ontological transformation of the military profession in post-industrial societies that has created a sacralised civic duty to fight in war. The research of warfare is becoming more focused on the individual – who is e… Show more

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