The power of power of politics: from classical realism to neotraditionalism/ John A. Vasquez

pt. I. The Original Text: Classical Realism and Quantitative International Politics.

1. The role of paradigms in scientific inquiry: a conceptual framework and a set of principles for paradigm evaluation.
2. The role of the realist paradigm in the development of a scientific study of international relations.
3. Research design: defining and operationalizing the realist paradigm.
4. Theory construction as a paradigm-directed activity.
5. Data making as a paradigm-directed activity.
6. Research as a paradigm-directed activity.
7. Evaluation: the adequacy of the realist paradigm.
8. Theory and research in the 1970s: the emerging anomalies --

pt. II. Neorealism and Neotraditionalism: International Relations Theory at the Millennium.
9. Retrospective: neorealism and the power of power politics.
10. The promise and potential pitfalls of post-modernism: the need for theory appraisal.
11. The realist paradigm as a degenerating research program: neotraditionalism and Waltz's balancing proposition.
12. Mearsheimer's multipolar myths and the false promise of realist policy prescriptions: the empirical inaccuracy of the realist paradigm.
13. Challenging the relevance and explanatory power of the realist paradigm: the debate on the end of the Cold War.
14. Conclusion: the continuing inadequacy of the realist paradigm.