The Power of Power Politics. From Classical Realism to Neotraditionalism

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Dedication......Page 9
Contents......Page 11
Figures......Page 13
Tables......Page 14
Preface......Page 15
Introduction......Page 19
Part I The Original Text: Classical Realism and Quantitative International Politics......Page 29
Preface to the Original Text......Page 31
Acknowledgments......Page 35
Defining the concept of paradigm......Page 37
Describing scientific inquiry......Page 43
Evaluating scientific inquiry......Page 46
2 The role of the realist paradigm in the development of a scientific study of international relations......Page 50
The idealist phase......Page 51
The realist tradition......Page 53
The realist tradition and the behavioral revolt......Page 57
Conclusion......Page 61
Deriving propositions......Page 63
Defining the realist paradigm......Page 65
Operationalizing the realist paradigm......Page 70
The proposition......Page 78
Research design......Page 81
Preliminary empirical tests......Page 82
Conclusion......Page 88
Kuhn's analysis......Page 95
Data making: what it is and why it occurs......Page 96
Data making in international relations during the pre-realist and behavioral periods......Page 98
Operationalization and measurement......Page 105
Deriving hypotheses......Page 107
The sample......Page 108
The findings......Page 109
Data making in the 1970s......Page 110
Conclusion......Page 120
The proposition......Page 122
Operationalization and measurement......Page 123
Deriving hypotheses......Page 124
The samples......Page 125
The findings......Page 130
Conclusion......Page 137
7 Evaluation: the adequacy of the realist paradigm......Page 139
The criteria......Page 140
A framework for evaluating paradigms......Page 141
Operationalization and measurement......Page 143
Test design......Page 148
The findings......Page 149
The criterion of centrality......Page 150
Operationization and measurement......Page 151
Test design......Page 152
The findings......Page 154
The criterion of scientific importance......Page 161
Operationalization and measurement......Page 162
Test design......Page 163
The findings......Page 164
Conclusion and implications......Page 167
Introduction......Page 172
The first assumption......Page 174
The third assumption......Page 185
Toward a new paradigm......Page 193
The future of the scientific study of international relations......Page 196
Part II Neorealism and Neotraditionalism: International Relations Theory at the Millennium......Page 199
9 Retrospective: neorealism and the power of power politics......Page 201
The contribution of The Power of Power Politics......Page 202
The continuing validity of its tenets: cause for celebration and despair......Page 208
The unchanging structure......Page 210
Domestic politics and levels of analysis......Page 212
Anarchy......Page 215
Neorealism and the central concern of the field – war......Page 221
Conclusion......Page 230
10 The promise and potential pitfalls of post-modernism: the need for theory appraisal......Page 232
The promise of post-modernism......Page 233
1. The arbitrary nature of modernity......Page 234
2. Choice posing as Truth......Page 235
4. Language and conceptual frameworks are prone to self-fulfilling prophecies......Page 236
5. The process of identification and the construction of identity is a form of power and an act of violation......Page 237
The pitfalls......Page 238
Reconstructing scientific inquiry after Enlightenment's fall......Page 241
Overcoming relativism within scientific inquiry......Page 247
Conclusion......Page 254
11 The realist paradigm as a degenerating research program: neotraditionalism and Waltz’s balancing proposition......Page 258
The criterion......Page 260
The research program to be analyzed......Page 266
The balancing of power – the great new law that turned out not to be so......Page 269
Balancing vs. bandwagoning......Page 272
Buck-passing and chain-ganging......Page 283
Historical case studies......Page 290
Shirking the evidence and proving the point......Page 292
Conclusion......Page 302
12 Mearsheimer's multipolar myths and the false promise of realist policy prescriptions: the empirical inaccuracy of the…......Page 305
The criteria......Page 308
The multipolar myth – the evidence......Page 310
False promises......Page 319
Quantitative research on norms and institutions......Page 321
The causal logic of relative gains......Page 325
Nuclear deterrence and multipolar peace......Page 328
Conclusion......Page 331
13 Challenging the relevance and explanatory power of the realist paradigm: the debate on the end of the Cold War......Page 335
The major policy anomaly......Page 338
Ex post facto analysis......Page 342
The problem of timing......Page 345
The magnitude of retrenchment and decline......Page 347
The role of domestic politics......Page 352
The outlines of a nonrealist explanation......Page 355
Leadership change......Page 357
Testable differences......Page 359
External variables......Page 362
The minor policy anomaly......Page 365
A brief note on liberal explanations......Page 369
Conclusion......Page 380
14 Conclusion: the continuing inadequacy of the realist paradigm......Page 387
The criteria of adequacy and the case studies......Page 388
The findings of the case studies......Page 390
Prolegomenon to any future adequate paradigm......Page 395
Where do we go from here?......Page 400
References......Page 405
Name index......Page 451
Subject index......Page 459