Introduction; Part I. Classical Realism and Quantitative International Politics: 1. The role of paradigms in scientific enquiry: a conceptual framework and a set of principles for paradigm evaluation; 2. The role of the realist paradigm in the development of a scientific study of international relations; 3. Research design: defining and operationalizing the realist paradigm; 4. Theory construction as a paradigm-directed activity; 5. Data making as a paradigm-directed activity; 6. Research as a paradigm-directed activity; 7. Evaluation: the adequacy of the realist paradigm; 8. Theory and research in the 1970s: the emerging anomalies; Part II. Neorealism and Neotraditionalism: International Relations Theory at the Millennium: 9. Retrospective: neorealism and the power of power politics; 10. The promise and potential pitfalls of post-modernism: the need for theory reappraisal; 11. The realist paradigm as a degenerating research program: neotraditionalism and Waltz's balancing proposition; 12. Mearsheimer's multipolar myths and the false promise of realist policy prescriptions: the empirical inaccuracy of the realist paradigm; 13. Challenging the relevance and explanatory power of the realist paradigm: the debate on the end of the Cold War; 14. Conclusion: the continuing inadequacy of the realist paradigm.
Introduction; Part I. Classical Realism and Quantitative International Politics: 1. The role of paradigms in scientific enquiry: a conceptual framework and a set of principles for paradigm evaluation; 2. The role of the realist paradigm in the development of a scientific study of international relations; 3. Research design: defining and operationalizing the realist paradigm; 4. Theory construction as a paradigm-directed activity; 5. Data making as a paradigm-directed activity; 6. Research as a paradigm-directed activity; 7. Evaluation: the adequacy of the realist paradigm; 8. Theory and research in the 1970s: the emerging anomalies; Part II. Neorealism and Neotraditionalism: International Relations Theory at the Millennium: 9. Retrospective: neorealism and the power of power politics; 10. The promise and potential pitfalls of post-modernism: the need for theory reappraisal; 11. The realist paradigm as a degenerating research program: neotraditionalism and Waltz's balancing proposition; 12. Mearsheimer's multipolar myths and the false promise of realist policy prescriptions: the empirical inaccuracy of the realist paradigm; 13. Challenging the relevance and explanatory power of the realist paradigm: the debate on the end of the Cold War; 14. Conclusion: the continuing inadequacy of the realist paradigm.
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