THE THEORY OF POSTMODERNISM AS A CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORY
THE THEORY OF POSTMODERNISM AS A CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORY

Summary/Abstract: A feeling of “new” emerged in almost every level as the political situations stabilized by the balance of terror that appeared in the post World War II era started to disintegrate by the 1980’s. For the past two decades, the postmodern debates dominated the cultural and intellectual scene in many fields throughout the world. In aesthetic and cultural theory, polemics emerged over whether modernism in the arts was or was not dead and what sort of postmodern art was succeeding it. Advocates of the postmodern in turn aggressively criticized traditional culture, theory, and politics, while defenders of the modern tradition responded either by ignoring the new challenger, by attacking it in return, or by attempting to come to terms with and appropriate the new discourses and positions.

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