Strukturální problémy české sociální vědy O hybridním charakteru oboru mezinárodních vztahů
The Structural Problems of Czech Social Science: On the Hybrid Nature of the Czech IR Studies

Summary/Abstract: The study assesses the evolution and the current state of the IR studies in the CzechRepublic. It starts from a critical stance towards those interpretations that succumb to the simplifiedbackwardness-modernization logic. Instead the study puts forth an analysis that builds on postcolonialand subaltern approaches while showing that modernization can paradoxically reinforcethe structural dependence of the discipline. The current Czech IR studies are thus better describedas a hybrid discipline based on both the mechanical acceptance of Western theoretical approachesand exclusionary practices than as a successful modernization. The ability to conduct theoreticallyorientedresearch is often seen as one of the benefits of the discipline’s integration in the internationalacademic structures. However, what is entirely ignored is the negative impact of the neoliberaldisciplining techniques, commodification of research and consequently also the emergence ofacademic mimicry and the related fragmentation of the entire field.

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