Causation in international relations :: reclaiming causal analysis /

"World political processes, such as wars and globalization, are engendered by complex sets of causes and conditions. Although the idea of causation is fundamental to the field of International Relations, what the concept of cause means or entails has remained an unresolved and contested matter....

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1. Verfasser: Kurki, Milja
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge studies in international relations ; 108.
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Zusammenfassung:"World political processes, such as wars and globalization, are engendered by complex sets of causes and conditions. Although the idea of causation is fundamental to the field of International Relations, what the concept of cause means or entails has remained an unresolved and contested matter. In recent decades ferocious debates have surrounded the idea of causal analysis, some scholars even questioning the legitimacy of applying the notion of cause in the study of International Relations. This book suggests that underlying the debates on causation in the field of International Relations is a set of problematic assumptions (deterministic, mechanistic and empiricist) and that we should reclaim causal analysis from the dominant discourse of causation. Milja Kurki argues that reinterpreting the meaning, aims and methods of social scientific causal analysis opens up multi-causal and methodologically pluralist avenues for future International Relations scholarship."--Jacket
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xii, 349 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-339) and index.
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