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Horses for courses: Why nor neorealist theories of foreign policy?
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In this paper, the authors discuss why nor neorealist theories of foreign policy do not explain the need for horses for courses in foreign policy, and propose a horse-for-course approach.Abstract:
(1996). Horses for courses: Why nor neorealist theories of foreign policy? Security Studies: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 7-53.read more
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Social Theory of International Politics
TL;DR: Wendt as discussed by the authors describes four factors which can drive structural change from one culture to another - interdependence, common fate, homogenization, and self-restraint - and examines the effects of capitalism and democracy in the emergence of a Kantian culture in the West.
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Taking Preferences Seriously: A Liberal Theory of International Politics
TL;DR: The authors reformulates liberal international relations (IR) theory in a nonideological and nonutopian form appropriate to empirical social science and demonstrates that the existence of a coherent liberal theory has significant theoretical, methodological, and empirical implications.
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Neoclassical Realism and Theories of Foreign Policy
TL;DR: The authors surveys three prominent theories of foreign policy and shows how the works under review set out a compelling alternative, one that updates and systematizes insights drawn from classical realist thought.
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국제정치이론 = Theory of international politics
Kenneth Neal Waltz,건영 박 +1 more
TL;DR: The seeker after the truth is not one who studies the writings of the ancients and, following his natural disposition, puts his trust in them, but rather, one who suspects his faith in them and questions what he gathers from them, the one who submits to argument and demonstration, and not to the sayings of a human being whose nature is fraught with all kinds of imperfection and deformation as mentioned in this paper.
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Security Seeking under Anarchy: Defensive Realism Revisited
TL;DR: The paper as mentioned in this paper was presented at the 1999 annual meetings of the International Studies Association and the American Political Science Association and was reviewed by Dale Copeland, Bernard Finel, Benjamin Frankel, Benjamin Miller, Jennifer Sterling-Folker, and anonymous reviewers for International Security.
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Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research
TL;DR: For instance, King, Keohane, Verba, and Verba as mentioned in this paper have developed a unified approach to valid descriptive and causal inference in qualitative research, where numerical measurement is either impossible or undesirable.
The structure of scientific revolutions
TL;DR: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions as mentioned in this paper is a seminal work in the history of science and philosophy of science, and it has been widely cited as a major source of inspiration for the present generation of scientists.
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Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes
TL;DR: For centuries knowledge meant proven knowledge, proven either by the power of the intellect or by the evidence of the senses as discussed by the authors. But the notion of proven knowledge was questioned by the sceptics more than two thousand years ago; but they were browbeaten into confusion by the glory of Newtonian physics.
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Anarchy is what states make of it: the social construction of power politics
TL;DR: The debate between realists and liberals has reemerged as an axis of contention in international relations theory as mentioned in this paper, and the debate is more concerned today with the extent to which state action is influenced by "structure" versus "process" and institutions.