Научне револуције: Попер, Кун, Лакатош и наука о међународним односима
Scientific revolutions: Popper, Kuhn, Lakatos and the discipline of international relations

Summary/Abstract: Authors attempt to assess the usefulness of Popper’s scientific refutation, Kuhn’s concept of paradigmatic shifts and Lakatos’ scientific research programmes in the discipline of international relations and discuss their validity in evaluating the progress within it. The aim is to show that the first two concepts are not relevant to the science that investigates such a complex field such as international relations, and that the third can be used to monitor progress in the theories themselves (research programmes), but not at the level of the entire discipline. Our view is that the scientific revolutions in international relations are unsustainable, harmful and do not bring a benefit to the discipline of international relations which has a very compound subject of research.

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