See also Carlo Cercignani, Ludwig Boltzmann: The Man who Trusted Atoms(Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1998).
41 Frederick Suppe, ‘The search for philosophical understanding of scientific theories’, in
Suppe, The Structure of Scientific Theories, pp. 1–241, and ‘Afterword – 1977’ in Second
edition, pp. 615–730.
42 Patrick Suppes, ‘A comparison of the meaning and uses of models in Mathematics and
the empirical sciences’, Synthese12, 1960, pp. 287–301; Frederick Suppe, The Semantic
Conception of Theories and Scientific Realism(Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1989);
Bas C. van Fraassen, The Scientific Image(Oxford: Clarendon Press 1980).
43 Ronald N. Giere, Science without Laws(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999),
p. 97.
44 Cf. Suppe, The Structure, p. 522.
45 Giere, Science, p. 119.
46 Giere, Science, p. 123.
47 Paul Diesing, How Does Social Science Work? Reflections on Practice(Pittsbrugh: University
of Pittsburgh Press, 1991), pp. 69ff, 306ff, 330–35; Ronald N. Giere, Scientific Perspectivism
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006), pp. 89–92; Giere, Science, throughout.
48 While such definitions are usually – especially from those who use the wide conception
of theory – implied but not spelled out, laudably clear presentations can be found in Barry
Buzan, From International to World Society? English School Theory and the Social Structure of
Globalisation(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 24–26; and Gunther
Hellmann, Klaus Dieter Wolf and Michael Zürn (eds), Die neuen Internationalen
Beziehungen: Forschungsstand und Perspektiven in Deutschland(Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2003).
49 Giere, Scientific Perspectivism, p. 61; Giere, Science, pp. 84–96; Nancy Cartwright, The
Dappled World: A Study of the Boundaries of Science(Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1999), pp. 43–59.
50 Cartwright, The Dappled World.
51 Mary S. Morgan and Margaret Morrison (eds), Models as Mediators: Perspectives on Natural
and Social Science(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
52 Giere, Scientific Perspectivism, pp. 48–9, 59–72.
53 Waltz, TIP, p. 13.
54 Wæver and Hansen, ‘Teori, Praksis og fredelige Atomvåben’. The present quote is taken
directly from the recording of the interview (00:37:44–00:39:00).
55 Waltz, TIP, p. 9.
56 Systematic effects of variation in domestic political structure is demonstrated in Kenneth
N. Waltz, Foreign Policy and Democratic Politics: The American and British Experience(Boston:
Little, Brown, 1967) – although not using much of the structuralist terminology of the
later 1979 book.
57 Waltz, TIP, pp. 81–84.
58 John Ruggie, ‘Continuity and transformation in the world polity: toward a neorealist
synthesis’, World Politics, 35 (2), 1983, p. 266.
59 Ruggie therefore denotes the first ‘deep structure’, and Buzan et al.proceed to subdivide
the ‘structural level’ into ‘deep structure’ and ‘distributional structure’ and talk about
‘tiers’ of structure (Logic, Fig 4.2 on p. 79).
60 Richard Little, The Balance of Power in International Relations: Metaphors, Myths and Models
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), p. 190.
61 Kenneth N. Waltz, ‘The Emerging Structure of International Politics’, International
Security, 18 (2), 1993, pp. 44–79; ‘Structural realism after the Cold War’ International
Security, 25 (1), Summer, pp. 5-41.
62 John J. Mearsheimer, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics(New York: Norton, 2001),
pp. 30–31.
63 Waltz, TIP, p. 82.
64 Waltz, TIP, pp. 91, 118.
65 Waltz, TIP, pp. 117, cf. p. 10.
66 Waltz, TIP, p. 121.
86 Waltz’s theory of theory