John A. Vasquez

Power of Power Politics (eBook, PDF)

From Classical Realism to Neotraditionalism

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Produktbeschreibung

In this much-expanded edition of his classic study, John Vasquez examines the power of the power politics perspective to dominate inquiry, and evaluates its ability to provide accurate explanations of the fundamental forces underlying world politics. Part I of the book reprints the original 1983 text of The Power of Power Politics. It examines classical realism and quantitative international politics, providing an intellectual history of the discipline and an evaluation of statistical research guided by the realist paradigm. The second part provides six new chapters covering neorealism, post-modernism, the neotraditional research program on balancing, Mearsheimer's analysis of multipolarity and institutionalism, the debate on the end of the Cold War, and neoliberalism. Through the use of comparative case studies these chapters analyse the extent to which the realist paradigm has been progressive (or degenerating), empirically accurate, and remains a relevant and explanatorily powerful theoretical approach for our current era.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 1999
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511037474
• Artikelnr.: 38190546

Inhaltsangabe

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.