Nicolas Guilhot

Nicolas Guilhot joined the SSRC in August 2007 as a research fellow. He is involved in developing the SSRC program on Knowledge Institutions . His current research focuses on the history of international relations theory, and on the role of philanthropy in the development of the social sciences. His publications include The Democracy Makers: Human Rights and the Politics of Global Order (Columbia University Press 2005) and Financiers, Philanthropes: Sociologie de Wall Street (Raisons d’Agir 2004).

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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Secularism, realism, and international relations

Among the various fields of the social sciences, international relations theory has established itself both as scientific and as politically relevant. Along with economics, it is a model of social scientific expertise, and it has an established record of informing state policies. It provides a standard of political rationality against which policy decisions can be matched and assessed. [...]

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