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Over the past seventy years or so, the discipline of international relations has been
marked by numerous and fundamental epistemological and methodological debates. The first of
these numerous debates arose in response to the publication of Hans J. Morgenthau’s Politics
Among Nations in 1948, which pitted idealists like E.H. Carr against realists like
Morgenthau.1 In the years following the publication of Politics Among Nations, debates like this
one were to multiply dramatically in response to the emergence of numerous new
methodological and epistemological schools. Interestingly, however, none of the new schools
of international relations ever sought to contest the epistemological and methodological
pronouncement which serves to introduce Morgenthau’s magnum opus
