Theories of International Cooperation and the Primacy of Anarchy

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Theories of International Cooperation and the Primacy of Anarchy: Explaining U.S. International Policy-Making after Bretton Woods

作者：Jennifer Anne Sterling-Folker
文件大小：1.30MB
文件类型：文字PDF
语言：英语
出版：State University of New York Press，2002年
页数：321
书签：有

内容简介：
Methodological and historical disciplinary differences aside, why is the study of political science divided into the subfields of international relations (IR), comparative politics, and American politics when clearly political outcomes result from an interaction of factors that cut across each of these subfields? My professional inquiries are driven by this central conceptual question, and it has informed this present study. It is a “second-image reversed” question because it presumes that it is impossible to treat the systemic environment in which nation-states exist, the internal composition and politics of nationstates, and the institutions and politics of the United States in particular, as if they were in causal isolation from one another. It presumes instead that processes and outcomes in each of these areas are caused by variable interaction across them.

Much of the IR scholarly community remains convinced that because the liberal IR theoretical paradigm explicitly recognizes the causal role of subsystemic variables, it adequately allows for the integration of subfield analysis. I am firmly convinced otherwise, however, and one of the goals of this work is to reveal why that particular paradigm is insufficient to the task at hand. Alternatively I seek to develop a more holistic explanatory approach which can deductively combine the three standard levels-of-analysis under the same causal framework, but which is also concerned with the totality of historical and global political phenomenon. I believe realism offers such an approach, if the explanatory implications which might be derived from its ontology are fully considered.

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