Description

Why does the academic study of international relations have limited impact on the policy community? When research results are inconsistent, inconclusive, and contradictory, a lack of scholarly consensus discourages policy makers, the business community, and other citizens from trusting findings and conclusions from IR research. In New Directions for International Relations, Alex Mintz and Bruce Russett identify differences in methods of analysis as one cause of these problematic results. They discuss the problem and set the stage for nine chapters by diverse scholars to demonstrate innovative new developments in IR theory and creative new methods that can lay the basis for greater consensus. Looking at areas of concern such as the relationship between lawmaking and the use of military force, the challenge of suppressing extremists without losing moderates, and the public health effects of civil conflict, contributors show how international relations research can generate reliable results that can be, and in fact are, used in the real world.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The Method-of-Analysis Problem in International Relations
Chapter 3 Four Methods and Five Revolutions
Part 4 New Directions
Chapter 5 International Relations: A Network Approach
Chapter 6 Visualization in International Relations
Chapter 7 The Postwar Public Health Effects of Civil Conflict
Chapter 8 Alliances and the Expansion and Escalation of Militarized Interstate Disputes
Chapter 9 Separation of Powers, Lawmaking, and the Use of Military Force
Chapter 10 Democracies Prefer to Negotiate: Institutionalized Democracy, Diversion, and Statecraft during International Crises
Chapter 11 When Likely Losers Choose War
Chapter 12 Enforcing Peace: Suppressing Extremists without Losing the Moderates
Chapter 13 Are Leaders Susceptible to Negative Political Advice? An Experimental Study of High-Ranking Military Officers

Product details

Published Feb 03 2005
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 290
ISBN 9780739108499
Imprint Lexington Books
Dimensions 226 x 151 mm
Series Innovations in the Study of World Politics
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Alex Mintz

Anthology Editor

Bruce Russett

Contributor

Karl DeRouen Jr

Contributor

Shaun Goldfinch

Contributor

William Howell

Contributor

Paul Huth

Contributor

Zeev Maoz

Contributor

Jon Pevehouse

Contributor

Bruce Russett

Contributor

Alastair Smith

Contributor

Allan C. Stam

Contributor

Ilan Talmud

Contributor

Michael D. Ward

Contributor

Suzanne Werner

Contributor

Amy Yuen

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