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@article{ART001476121},
author={Yang Chun Hee},
title={International Relations as an American Social Science and Academic Freedom: A Need for an Expansion of Research Programmes and the Discussion of Taboo Subjects in International Relations},
journal={Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies},
issn={1225-8539},
year={2010},
volume={17},
number={2},
pages={127-148},
doi={10.18107/japs.2010.17.2.007}

TY - JOUR
AU - Yang Chun Hee
TI - International Relations as an American Social Science and Academic Freedom: A Need for an Expansion of Research Programmes and the Discussion of Taboo Subjects in International Relations
JO - Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies
PY - 2010
VL - 17
IS - 2
PB - Institute of Global Affairs
SP - 127
EP - 148
SN - 1225-8539
AB - A revisionist historian Howard Zinn once said that “you can’t be neutral on a moving train.” If you remain silent on a moving train that means you are already agreeing with the speed and the destination of the train. There isn’t anybody who is not aware that the study of international relations has been an American social science; and yet, nothing serious has been done to change the pattern. If IR scholars remain silent doing exactly what the mainstream IR community requires them to do, that would be like pretending to be neutral on a moving train. This article suggests that the positivist and realist paradigms, which have dominated the field of international relations for the past forty years, might have been working as the most effective tools to serve the rich and powerful by ‘legitimately’ silencing the dissenting voices of the existing world. This article maintains that IR scholars should study not only topics like democratic peace, hegemonic stability theory, clash of civilizations etc. but also taboo subjects like the military-industrial complex, the Bilderberg Group, the Council on Foreign Relations, Jewish lobby, the wall street, the Rothschild, 9/11, and even UFO. Given our academic freedom, we might be able to discover some amazing hidden power structures of the world.
KW - 미국적 국제정치(International Relations as an American Social Science);학문적 자유 (Academic Freedom);실증주의와 현실주의 패러다임(Positivism and Realism);지적 상아탑에서의 탈출(Escape from the Intellectual Ivory Tower);금기주제(Taboo Subjects)
DO - 10.18107/japs.2010.17.2.007
ER -

Yang Chun Hee. (2010). International Relations as an American Social Science and Academic Freedom: A Need for an Expansion of Research Programmes and the Discussion of Taboo Subjects in International Relations. Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies, 17(2), 127-148.

Yang Chun Hee. 2010, "International Relations as an American Social Science and Academic Freedom: A Need for an Expansion of Research Programmes and the Discussion of Taboo Subjects in International Relations", Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies, vol.17, no.2 pp.127-148. Available from: doi:10.18107/japs.2010.17.2.007

Yang Chun Hee "International Relations as an American Social Science and Academic Freedom: A Need for an Expansion of Research Programmes and the Discussion of Taboo Subjects in International Relations" Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies 17.2 pp.127-148 (2010) : 127.

Yang Chun Hee. International Relations as an American Social Science and Academic Freedom: A Need for an Expansion of Research Programmes and the Discussion of Taboo Subjects in International Relations. 2010; 17(2), 127-148. Available from: doi:10.18107/japs.2010.17.2.007

Yang Chun Hee. "International Relations as an American Social Science and Academic Freedom: A Need for an Expansion of Research Programmes and the Discussion of Taboo Subjects in International Relations" Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies 17, no.2 (2010) : 127-148.doi: 10.18107/japs.2010.17.2.007

Yang Chun Hee. International Relations as an American Social Science and Academic Freedom: A Need for an Expansion of Research Programmes and the Discussion of Taboo Subjects in International Relations. Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies, 17(2), 127-148. doi: 10.18107/japs.2010.17.2.007

Yang Chun Hee. International Relations as an American Social Science and Academic Freedom: A Need for an Expansion of Research Programmes and the Discussion of Taboo Subjects in International Relations. Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies. 2010; 17(2) 127-148. doi: 10.18107/japs.2010.17.2.007

Yang Chun Hee. International Relations as an American Social Science and Academic Freedom: A Need for an Expansion of Research Programmes and the Discussion of Taboo Subjects in International Relations. 2010; 17(2), 127-148. Available from: doi:10.18107/japs.2010.17.2.007

Yang Chun Hee. "International Relations as an American Social Science and Academic Freedom: A Need for an Expansion of Research Programmes and the Discussion of Taboo Subjects in International Relations" Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies 17, no.2 (2010) : 127-148.doi: 10.18107/japs.2010.17.2.007