Vasquez, John A. <br/><br/>
The power of power of politics: from classical realism to neotraditionalism/ 
John A. Vasquez 
 - Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press,  1998. 
 - xv, 448 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
 - (Cambridge studies in international relations),  63 .
<br/><br/>pt. I. The Original Text: Classical Realism and Quantitative International Politics. <br/><br/>1. The role of paradigms in scientific inquiry: a conceptual framework and a set of principles for paradigm evaluation. <br/>2. The role of the realist paradigm in the development of a scientific study of international relations. <br/>3. Research design: defining and operationalizing the realist paradigm. <br/>4. Theory construction as a paradigm-directed activity. <br/>5. Data making as a paradigm-directed activity. <br/>6. Research as a paradigm-directed activity. <br/>7. Evaluation: the adequacy of the realist paradigm. <br/>8. Theory and research in the 1970s: the emerging anomalies --<br/><br/>pt. II. Neorealism and Neotraditionalism: International Relations Theory at the Millennium. <br/>9. Retrospective: neorealism and the power of power politics. <br/>10. The promise and potential pitfalls of post-modernism: the need for theory appraisal. <br/>11. The realist paradigm as a degenerating research program: neotraditionalism and Waltz's balancing proposition. <br/>12. Mearsheimer's multipolar myths and the false promise of realist policy prescriptions: the empirical inaccuracy of the realist paradigm. <br/>13. Challenging the relevance and explanatory power of the realist paradigm: the debate on the end of the Cold War. <br/>14. Conclusion: the continuing inadequacy of the realist paradigm. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780521442350 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Balance of power--Research<br/>International relations--Research<br/>Balance of power<br/>International relations
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>327.1072  / VAS/T