John A. Vasquez

The Power of Power Politics

From Classical Realism to Neotraditionalism
Herausgeber: Smith, Steve; Biersteker, Thomas J.

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an intellectual history of international relations theory from 1919 to the present.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 470
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 757g
• ISBN-13: 9780521447461
• ISBN-10: 0521447461
• Artikelnr.: 22472999

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. Classical Realism and Quantitative International
Politics: 1. The role of paradigms in scientific enquiry: a conceptual
framework and a set of principles for paradigm evaluation; 2. The role of
the realist paradigm in the development of a scientific study of
international relations; 3. Research design: defining and operationalizing
the realist paradigm; 4. Theory construction as a paradigm-directed
activity; 5. Data making as a paradigm-directed activity; 6. Research as a
paradigm-directed activity; 7. Evaluation: the adequacy of the realist
paradigm; 8. Theory and research in the 1970s: the emerging anomalies; Part
II. Neorealism and Neotraditionalism: International Relations Theory at the
Millennium: 9. Retrospective: neorealism and the power of power politics;
10. The promise and potential pitfalls of post-modernism: the need for
theory reappraisal; 11. The realist paradigm as a degenerating research
program: neotraditionalism and Waltz's balancing proposition; 12.
Mearsheimer's multipolar myths and the false promise of realist policy
prescriptions: the empirical inaccuracy of the realist paradigm; 13.
Challenging the relevance and explanatory power of the realist paradigm:
the debate on the end of the Cold War; 14. Conclusion: the continuing
inadequacy of the realist paradigm.