Sur la « problématique » de l'étude des relations internationales en France

In: Revue française de science politique, Band 33, Heft 3, S. 403-427

Abstract

This survey of the new approaches used by specialiste of thé new discipline of international relations starts from the observations in the Godelier Report, concerning the absence of a problematique, from which the study of international relations supposedly suffers in France. Very different conceptions of the study of international relations are already hiding behind the frequent invocation of «realism» or «empiricism». Although subject to discussion, the approaches inspired by marxism or the sociological method offer new research prospects. The problem lies less, in the end, in the absence of a problematique than in the juxtaposition of several problematiques. Because they are not correctly mode explicit, they tend to remain isolated and exclusive. Their points of convergence, indispensable to the consolidation of a discipline which too often seems to be looking for ils topic and its scope, should be found through a common effort.