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(2009) German thought and international relations, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Max Weber has a nebulous presence in IR. On the one hand, he does not occupy a position in the classical canon of political thought equivalent to that of, say, Hobbes. But on the other hand, the reception of his social scientific endeavor in Anglo-CAmerican academia at large and IR in particular has informed many of the most basic typologies of the modern state apparatus and modern political rule1 as well as some of the most prominent ways of understanding the ethico-political character of a world of territorial states (Walker 1993a; Neumann and Sending 2007). There is, however, an increasing body of literature that has sought to refute this orthodox Anglo-CAmerican reading of Weber.2 In various ways these works all criticize the conflation of Weber's "positivism" with the natural-scientific meaning of "objectivity" dominant in Anglo-CAmerican social science.
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Shilliam, R. (2009). Weber's realpolitik, in German thought and international relations, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 127-163.
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