Causal Inquiry in International Relations

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Av Adam R. C. Humphreys, Hidemi Suganami, University of Reading) Humphreys, Adam R. C. (Associate Professor, Department of Politics and International Relations, Associate Professor, Department of Politics and International Relations, Aberystwyth University) Suganami, Hidemi (Emeritus Professor of International Politics, Emeritus Professor of International Politics, Adam R C Humphreys

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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.Causal Inquiry in International Relations defends a new, philosophically-informed account of the principles which must underpin any causal research in a discipline such as International Relations. Its central claim is that there is an underlying logic to all causal inquiry, at the core of which is the search for empirical evidence capable of ruling out competing accounts of how specific events were brought about. Although this crucial fact is obscured by the 'culture of generalization' which predominates in contemporary social science, all causal knowledge ultimately depends on the provision of empirical support for concrete claims about specific events, located in space and time.This book not only explores existing philosophical debates around causation, but also provides a detailed study of some of the most fundamental methodological questions which arise in the course of causal inquiry. Using examples drawn from philosophy and from the study of international relations, it demonstrates what is problematic about established ways of thinking, brings new clarity to both philosophical and methodological questions, and seeks to enhance collective understanding of the contribution that causal inquiry can make to empirically rich and critically aware scholarship about world politics. It concludes by situating 'causal inquiry' in relation to other forms of inquiry employed in the study of world politics, emphasizing especially the often-unnoticed dependence of causal inquiry on precisely the kind of knowledge of specific events which historians are well-placed to provide.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-10-25
Mått165 x 240 x 25 mm
Vikt654 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor336
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780198823582

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Adam Humphreys is Associate Professor and Head of Department in the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Reading. He joined the University of Reading in 2013, having previously been a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford (2007-10) and Fellow in Politics at Brasenose College, Oxford (2010-13). His principal research interests are in International Relations theory and meta-theory, especially causation and causal explanation, realism and neo-realism, the English School, and the relationship between theory and history. He also has research interests in British foreign and defence policy, strategy, and the ethics of war.Hidemi Suganami studied International Relations at Tokyo, Aberystwyth, and London Universities. His first academic appointment was at Keele in 1975, where he later became Professor of the Philosophy of International Relations. In 2004, he moved to Aberystwyth, where currently he is Emeritus Professor of International Politics. His publications include: The Domestic Analogy and World Order Proposals (1989); On the Causes of War (1996); and, with Andrew Linklater, The English School of International Relations (2006). Over a number of years, he has been studying philosophical issues surrounding causation and explanation in International Relations.

In Causal Inquiry in International Relations (2024), Adam Humphreys and Hidemi Suganami have made an outstanding contribution to ongoing debates about causality in our field and in the social sciences in general. The methodological aspects of causal inquiry deserve the kind of attention that the authors give them, and the conversation that Humphreys and Suganami are advancing is critical to the evolution of the field. They should be commended for a splendid statement and acknowledged for the richness of the discussion about their analysis that will hopefully ensue.