Realism and World Politics
American political science’ (to quote Waltz).^88 When the end result is a discipline worshipping correlations after the strong i ...
and Waltz. Rationalism/reflectivism are far from irrelevant; but they could be treated usefully as questions of social theory an ...
9 Ole Wæver, ‘The rise and fall of the inter-paradigm debate’, in Steve Smith, Ken Booth and Marysia Zalewski (eds), Internation ...
26 Waltz characterises neorealism as ‘the basic theory of international relations’ (‘Structural realism after the Cold War’, p. ...
See also Carlo Cercignani, Ludwig Boltzmann: The Man who Trusted Atoms(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998). 41 Frederick Supp ...
67 Mearsheimer’s chapter in this volume (‘Reckless States and Realism’) illustrates this contrast very accurately. 68 The extend ...
90 Ole Wæver, ‘Measuring debateness and mapping frontiers – great debates in IR, 1947–2009’, paper for ISA, February 2010. 91 In ...
6 STRUCTURE? WHAT STRUCTURE? 1 Nicholas Onuf Kenneth Waltz’s name is irrevocably associated with the term structure. Waltz’s the ...
idealist–materialist binary suggested in Wendt’s characterization of constructivism. In developing a structural theory, Waltz de ...
Political structure Waltz’s first book, Man, The State and War(1959), makes occasional use of the term structurein discussing th ...
structural theory, Theory of International Politics(1979), contains a comparative discussion of ‘political institutions’ (also c ...
representone kind of model (theoretical models), and that all models are simplifi- cations, as indeed are all representations. T ...
so reconciles the rationalist and empiricist strands in Western philosophy and eventu- ates in demonstrable progress in explaini ...
soap bubbles), just as we see disks (the sun, moon). Any given sphere is made ‘by art [technê] or by nature [phusis, the whole t ...
Most observers would call these dynamics real effects, to be found in the world, not the model. I would call theminstitutional e ...
models or by reference to other models already available to them. ‘Seeing’ markets inaction reinforces market behaviour in turn ...
Wendt has reduced scientific realism (a prominent species of philosophical realism) to three propositions: 1 the world is indepe ...
Some microeconomists may regard the ‘economic world’ a model of the whole world – Gary Becker comes to mind^61 – but most are ‘c ...
the consensus of many other informed observers. Waltz himself has adopted this position: ‘some part of the scientific community ...
final, unifying synthesis filling space and time with ‘the continuous and uniform production’ of ‘things in themselves (thinghoo ...
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