Evaluating progress in international relations : how do you know? / edited by Annette Freyberg-Inan, Ewan Harrison and Patrick James.
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TextSeries: New international relationsPublisher: London ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017Description: xvii, 215 pages ; 24 cmContent type: - text
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- JZ1242 .E975 2017
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'This volume is the product of .. [a] "Venture Workshop" grant .. this support launched our project at the ISA convention in the spring of 2014.'
Includes bibliographical references (pages185-205) and index.
Machine generated contents note: pt. I Judging progress in the study of international relations -- 1. The bias of "science": on the intellectual appeal of neopositivism / Patrick Thaddeus Jackson -- 2. Maps, models, and theories: a scientific realist approach to validity / Colin Wight -- 3. Substance, form, and context: scholarly communities, institutions, and the nature of IR / Torbjørn L. Knutsen -- 4. The role of theory for knowledge creation in IR: a sociable pluralist discussion / Annette Freyberg-Inan -- pt. II Evaluating progress in democratic peace research -- an illustrative case study -- 5. Bounded pluralism and explanatory progress in international relations: what we can learn from the democratic peace debate / Fred Chernoff -- 6. System ism, analytic eclecticism, and the democratic peace / Patrick James -- 7. Rethinking the democratic peace: competing accounts of "scientific progress" in IR / Ewan Harrison -- 8. The normative within the explanatory: a critical take on the democratic peace literature / Piki Ish-Shalom -- 9. The closer you look, the less you see: knowledge cumulation in IR / Laura Sjoberg.
