Realism and World Politics
7 The standard study of Lippmann is Ronald Steele, Walter Lippmann and the American Century(New Brunswick: Transaction, 1999). 8 ...
21 Foreign Policy and Democratic Politics, p. 269. 22 Foreign Policy and Democratic Politics, p. 297. 23 Foreign Policy and Demo ...
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PART II Challenges to structural realist theory ...
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5 WALTZ’S THEORY OF THEORY The pictorial challenge to mainstream IR Ole Wæver I emphasized that much in the present seems to con ...
to read on the subject because I noticed great variation in the way the word ‘theory’ is used.’^8 Yet the debates on TIPnever fo ...
understanding of theory – helps to clarify more general issues about what ‘theory’ in ‘IR theory’ could mean. The philosophical ...
importance of the philosophy of science for TIP, this was not in terms of finding a guru or a church to sign up with. He rather ...
scientific standards more along the lines of King, Keohane and Verba, the text that Waltz increasingly designates as a contrast ...
be overthrown by new theories. This is in practice supported by most positions. (b) There is no way of getting from empirical da ...
the model. Application of theory then takes the form of assessing the fit between the model and things in the world. The semanti ...
Particularly the usagesof theory need to be re-conceptualised. Usually, main- stream scholars in IR lean on natural science idea ...
taking a shower, and that’s when I suddenly saw it. I have been trying, working at it, working at it, working at it, BUT... that ...
of Waltz’s theory, balance of power becomes explanatory in a deeper sense than it usually is – not unlike the status of models i ...
from the text unambiguously what is part of the core model. Very likely, it consists of both graphic and linguistic elements. So ...
The matters omitted are not neglected when a theory is used. Theories are sparse in formulation and beautifully simple. Reality ...
realism – offensive/defensive^77 and neoclassical realism^78 – as well as in Waltz’s discussion with Keohane.^79 Take the charac ...
factors that condition how these mechanisms translate into actual outcomes. This is laudable from a Waltzian perspective, but to ...
This ultra-short version places neorealism in discipline-wide patterns. Given other contenders, available allies and possible tr ...
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