ABSTRACT
The operation and framework of an analysis and evaluation, therefore, can be seen in an analogy with something like the weather: it shines, it rains, and sometimes there might even be violent storms – but what is crucial is that it is acting/interacting within a weather system. This chapter argues that analysts must reconsider their position in the context of international climate. This can be done without abandoning core principles, but by recapturing traditional axioms, which have been sacrificed over the past several decades in a futile endeavour to construct. Policies implemented by individuals, groups and states may be interpreted more clearly under certain theories, whilst at different modes of inquiry it is understood clearer in others. In the complexity and diversity of world affairs, certain questions, problems and warnings may not hold any definitive answers, nor would an immediate analysis be able to command the sufficient layers involved to answer the questions and problems.
