| SUMMARY: |
The present volume intends to bring together several research endeavors
undertaken by students of the Faculty of European Studies, under the
coordination of professors Ana Pantea and Laura Herța. Topically and
methodologically, the chapters included here are meant to reveal the interplay
of sub‐ fields such as International Relations, Comparative Politics, Area Studies,
and Regional Politics.
The evolution of all the aforementioned sub‐fields entails opposing views
within the academia (with respect to clear‐cut disciplines or new disciplinary
boundaries) and cross‐cutting approaches or theoretical claims. Also, the
historical trajectory is indicative for transformations reflected by the ways in
which the study of international politics changed from the inter‐war period to
the Cold War period and the post‐Cold War one.
The academic discipline of International Relations was formed in 1919 when
the Department of International Politics was created in Aberystwyth; the initial
scientific goal was to design means in order to prevent war and this is precisely
why David Davis (Welsh industrialist) set it up. |
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