TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vasquez, John A.
TI  - The power of power of politics: from classical realism to neotraditionalism
SN  - 9780521442350
U1  - 327.1072 
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Balance of power--Research
KW  - International relations--Research
KW  - Balance of power
KW  - International relations
N1  - 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
ER  -