1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464491203321

Autore

Chernoff Fred

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8047-9229-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (324 pages)

Collana

Stanford Security Studies

Disciplina

327.101

Soggetti

International relations - Methodology

International relations - Philosophy

Security, International

Explanation

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Traditions of Explanation and the Idea of Scientific Progress -- 2. Explanation in the Natural and Social Sciences -- 3. The Nuclear Proliferation Debate -- 4. The Balance-of-Power Debate -- 5. The Democratic Peace Debate -- 6. Analysis, Alternatives, Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991003684489707536

Autore

Centre national de la recherche scientifique

Titolo

Dialects romans de France a la lumière des atlas regionaux : colloques nationaux du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Strasbourg : CNRS, 1973

Descrizione fisica

486 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Disciplina

447

Soggetti

Dialetti francesi

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00046521

Titolo

Documenta Barbarorum : Festschrift fur Walther Heissig / hrsg. von Klaus Sagaster, Michael Weiers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wiesbaden, : Otto Harrassowitz, 1983

Descrizione fisica

XXXVII, 435 p. ; 26 cm

Classificazione

MON GEN D I

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia