Colouring it Morgenthau: new evidence for an old thesis on quantitative international politics
- 26 October 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in British Journal of International Studies
- Vol. 5 (3) , 210-228
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0260210500114822
Abstract
In the last decade a number of scholars have criticized the dominant paradigm in international relations inquiry. Two major criticisms have been levelled at some of the advocates of paradigm change: they do not clearly demonstrate the dominance of a specific paradigm, and they have produced no data-based studies to demonstrate the obsolescence of the fundamental assumptions of the field. This paper attempts to meet these criticisms by systematically testing what has become known as the “Colour It Morgenthau” thesis, namely the claim that the Realist paradigm has dominated quantitative international relations and has up to this time failed to explain behaviour adequately.Keywords
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