Karen_A._Mingst,_Ivan_M._Arregu_n-Toft]_Essentia

Women serving in combat areas are often exposed to the same risks and engage in the same reactions as their male counter parts d ...

Thinking Theoretically 73 By testing groups of interrelated hypotheses, theories are either refuted or supported and refined— bu ...

74 CHAPTER THREE ■ InternatIonal relatIons theorIes deduction of hypotheses from assumptions and a testing of the hypotheses as ...

Theory and the Levels of Analy sis 75 is to guide us toward an understanding of which of these vari ous ideas are necessary and ...

76 CHAPTER THREE ■ InternatIonal relatIons theorIes meaning they incorporate all three levels of analy sis. Yet each of the theo ...

Realism (and Neorealism) 77 can rely only on themselves. Their most impor tant concern is to increase their own relative power. ...

78 CHAPTER THREE ■ InternatIonal relatIons theorIes realists agree on what they are. For example, six centuries after Thucydides ...

Realism (and Neorealism) 79 ing to preserve what is in the national interest; and (3) because the international sys­ tem is anar ...

80 CHAPTER THREE ■ InternatIonal relatIons theorIes rapidly forced the retreat and later surrender of the Iraqi army. Iraq was f ...

Realism (and Neorealism) 81 therefore propose general laws to explain events: they simplify explanations of be hav­ ior in antic ...

82 CHAPTER THREE ■ InternatIonal relatIons theorIes balance- of- power world, a state’s survival depends on its having more powe ...

Liberalism and Neoliberal Institutionalism 83 Whereas classical realism offers no satisfactory rationale for the decline of powe ...

84 CHAPTER THREE ■ InternatIonal relatIons theorIes and forms separate nations. War is a product of society, not an attribute in ...

Liberalism and Neoliberal Institutionalism 85 tive prob lem solving in a multilateral forum. Liberals also place faith in intern ...

86 CHAPTER THREE ■ InternatIonal relatIons theorIes structure of an interaction can intervene between intention and outcome to e ...

Liberalism and Neoliberal Institutionalism 87 Neoliberal institutionalists arrive at the same prediction that liberals do— coope ...

88 CHAPTER THREE ■ InternatIonal relatIons theorIes is: Why? Vari ous liberal explanations provide potential answers. One argume ...

The Radical Perspective 89 by two other scholars, Steven Pinker and Joshua Goldstein. Pinker, a scholar of cogni- tive and evolu ...

90 CHAPTER THREE ■ InternatIonal relatIons theorIes developed. Radicals are concerned most with explaining the relationships amo ...

The Radical Perspective 91 dynamics of capitalism and economic expansion make such exploitation necessary if the top dogs are to ...