ABSTRACT
In this book we have sought to address three primary issues: to define the “agentstructure problem”; to critique prior literature on this topic by international relations scholars; and to derive implications of the ontological and epistemological components of the agent-structure problem for the empirical analysis of international politics. In this concluding chapter, we will first recapitulate the arguments presented in the preceding pages. This will provide us a basis for a discussion of the status and role of the metatheoretical/theoretical divide in the analysis of international politics.
