Scientific Realism as a Meta-Theory of International Politics.
The recent increase in interest in scientific realist foundations for international relations theory, spearheaded by Wendt in various works, most fully articulated in his Social Theory of International Politics, and supported by a number of other authors, has brought to the fore a set of related iss...
| Publicado en: | International Studies Quarterly Vol. 46; no. 2; pp. 189 - 208 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2002
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