Explanation and progress in security studies : bridging paradigm divides in international relations

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서명/저자사항	Explanation and progress in security studies: bridging paradigm divides in international relations / Fred Chernoff.
개인저자	Chernoff, Fred, author.
발행사항	Stanford, California: Stanford Security Studies, an imprint of Stanford University Press, 2014.
형태사항	1 online resource (ix, 311 pages).
기타형태 저록	Print version: Chernoff, Fred, author. Explanation and progress in security studies 9780804790956
ISBN	9780804792295 0804792291
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references and index.
내용주기	Traditions of explanation and the idea of "scientific progress" -- Explanation in the natural and social sciences -- The nuclear proliferation debate : why do states build nuclear weapons? -- The balance of power debate : why do states form alliances? -- The democratic peace debate : why do democracies act the way they do? -- Analysis, alternatives, conclusion.
요약	Explanation and Progress in Security Studies asks why Security Studies, as a central area of International Relations, has not experienced scientific progress in the way natural sciences have--and answers by arguing that the underlying reason is that scholars in Security Studies have advanced a range of different notions of "explanation" or different criteria of "explanatory superiority" to show that their positions are better than rival positions. To demonstrate this, the author engages in in-depth content analysis of the generally recognized exemplars of explanation and explanatory superiority in three of the core debates in the disciplines: Why do states pursue policies of nuclear proliferation? Why do states choose to form the alliances they do? And why do liberal democratic states behave the way they do toward other liberal democracies? The book reveals that authors in the debates that have shown the most progress use similar criteria in arguing for and against the key explanations. In the nuclear proliferation debate, there is wide divergence in the criteria the most visible authors use, and there is wide divergence in the explanations offered. In the alliance formation/balance-of-power debate, there is some overlap of criteria the most important authors use, and there has been some limited movement toward consensus. In the democratic peace debate there has been much more overlap of criteria the most prominent authors use, and there is agreement on both some positive and negative conclusions.--
해제	Publisher description.
일반주제명	International relations --Methodology. International relations --Philosophy. Security, International. Explanation. POLITICAL SCIENCE --Government --International. POLITICAL SCIENCE --International Relations --General. Explanation. International relations --Methodology. International relations --Philosophy. Security, International.
분류기호(DDC)	327.101
언어	영어
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