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Article: Causes and consequences in international relations.
- Article from:
- Harvard International Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 1997
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(New York: Pinter, 1996) 216 pp.
This latest work by Michael Nicholson is a thought provoking attempt to understand the complexities and disagreements arising from the search for a definition and analysis of international relations as a social science. The book opens by outlining three major schools of thought which propose different approaches to fundamental questions in the social sciences--classical theory, post-modern theory, and the theory of the social scientific school. To differentiate their views, Nicholson addresses the philosophical debate over the distinction between explaining and understanding social behavior, as well as the issue of quantification ...