International Relations: The Disputed Search for Method

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1748-6858|34|1|40-66

ISSN: 0034-6705

Source: Review of Politics, Vol.34, Iss.1, 1972-01, pp. : 40-66

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Abstract

The study of international relations has passed through a series of intellectual controversies. These have included the debate between political realism and political idealism and the debate as to whether international relations is a distinct discipline or the subject matter of several other disciplines. Now the discipline is debating appropriate methodology. Proponents of a traditional approach and proponents of a scientific approach both contend for their particular methodology.