Abstract

FERRERO, Mariano  and  FILIBI LOPEZ, Igor. ¡Bárbaros en Delfos! Geopolitical knowledge and International Relations before the 21st Century. CONfines relacion. internaci. ciencia política [online]. 2006, vol.2, n.3, pp.27-44. ISSN 1870-3569.

The purpose of this article is to examine the connection between knowledge and power as well as scientific knowledge and politics. We use a sociology of knowledge perspective that provides a framework for the social and geopolitical situated nature of social science researchers and their academic communities. We will make sense of how the evolution of International Relations' (IR) knowledge production is tightly linked to the development of the international political context. From this point of view, American post-war hegemony came hand in hand with the Realist monopoly of the IR discipline. By the same token, the ongoing decentering process of academic spaces and theoretical approaches expresses the new world political landscape after the Pax Americana/Cold War era.

Keywords : sociology of knowledge; international relations; theory of international relations; Cold War; geopolitics.

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