Richard K. Ashley
| Richard K. Ashley | |
|---|---|
| Known for | Postmodernist international relations |
| Title | Associate professor |
| Awards | Karl Deutsch Award (1985) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | PhD |
| Alma mater | MIT |
| Thesis | Growth, Rivalry, and Balance (1976) |
| Doctoral advisor | Nazli Choucri |
| Influences | Alker, Derrida, Foucault, Habermas, Spivak |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | International relations |
| Institutions | School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State |
| Main interests | International relations theory |
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| Website | pgs |
Richard K. Ashley is a postmodernist scholar of International relations. He is an associate professor at the Arizona State University's School of Politics and Global Studies.
Ashley studied at the University of California, Santa Barbara and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was research assistant to Hayward Alker. Initially, Ashley's research was on the balance of power in international relations, particularly in his The Political Economy of War and Peace (1980). He soon began to shift his approach to metatheoretical questions and Critical Theory. By the mid-1980s, Ashley had adopted a postmodernist and subversive approach to international relations theory, exemplified by his influences: Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
Ashley was one of the first to challenge the position of mainstream realism and liberalism. In "The Poverty of Neorealism" (1984), he coined the term "neorealism" to describe the work of Kenneth Waltz.
Ashley received his Bachelor of Arts degree from University of California, Santa Barbara in 1970, after which he entered graduate school in Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) studying political science. He received his Doctorate of Philosophy from MIT in 1977, with a dissertation titled Growth, Rivalry, and Balance: The Sino-Soviet-American Triangle of Conflict (1976), supervised by Nazli Choucri.
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