International Relations and Social Science

4 important questions on International Relations and Social Science

On what grounds does one choose a paradigm, as designed by Kuhn?

Choosing between paradigms is subjective and not arbitrary, the choice must consider a multiplicity of factors.

What were the opposing paradigms in the Interparadigm Debate or Third Debate in the 1970s and 1980s?

Realism, pluralism and Marxism.

What was the core of the Fourth Debate in the Discipline of IR in the mid 1980s?

The debate between explaining and understanding, between positivism and post-positivism or between rationalism and reflectivism.
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In the Fourth Debate in the discipline of IR in the mid-1980s, Keohane lumped which theories under the label of reflectivism?

Critical theory, feminism, constructivism and post-structuralism

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