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Explaining and Understanding International Relations

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ISBN-10: 0198275897

ISBN-13: 9780198275893

Edition: 1991 (Reprint)

Authors: Martin Hollis, Steve Smith

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Are the workings of the international world to be explained scientifically, or are they to be understood through their inward meaning? In Explaining and Understanding International Relations philosopher Martin Hollis and international relations scholar Steve Smith join forces to analyse the dominant theories of international relations and to examine the philosophical issues underlying them. The book has three parts. In the first the authors review the growth of the discipline since 1918, pose the 'level of analysis' problem of whether to account for a sytem in terms of its units or vice versa, and contrast the demand of scientific method with those of interpretative understanding. In the…    
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Book details

List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/22/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 234
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

<p class="biography" <b Stephen Smith</b 's stories about five dollar bills and boy travel writers have appeared in Geist and McSweeney's. He has also written for the <i Globe and Mail</i , <i Canadian Geographic</i , <i Outside</i , and the <i New York Times Magazine</i . He lives in Toronto, where he tends a blog, puckstruck.com, that keeps an eye on hockey culture. <i Puckstruck</i is his first book. </p

Introduction: Two Traditions
The Growth of a Discipline
Explaining
Understanding
The International System
The Games Nations Play (1)
Roles and Reasons
The Games Nations Play (2)
Explaining and Understanding
Guide to Further Reading
Index