ABSTRACT

This book is a major contribution to the debate about philosophy and method in history and international relations. The author analyses IR scholarship from classical realism to quantitative and postmodern work.

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

chapter |28 pages

History, Contingency, and the Roots of Realism

Reinhold Niebuhr and E. H. Carr

chapter |31 pages

History, Analogy, and Policy Realism

Hans J. Morgenthau and George F. Kennan

chapter |27 pages

The Poverty of Ahistoricism

Kenneth N. Waltz and neorealist theory

chapter |29 pages

“The Importance of Being Scientific”

J.David Singer and the Correlates of War

chapter |31 pages

Exit From History?

Postmodern international relations

chapter |12 pages

Conclusion

History, skepticism, and the recovery of theory