Evaluating progress in international relations :  how do you know? 
Edited by Annette Freyberg-Inan, Ewan Harrison and Patrick James 
 - London :  Routledge,  c2017. 
 - xvii, 215 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
 - The new international relations .
<br/><br/>PrefaceIntroduction : Progress, Consensus and Cumulation in IR Scholarship?[Ewan Harrison, Annette Freyberg-Inan, and Patrick James]Part I: Judging Progress in the Study of International RelationsChapter 1 - The Bias of `Science': On the Intellectual Appeal of Neopositivism[Patrick Thaddeus Jackson]Chapter 2 - Maps, Models and Theories: A Scientific Realist Approach to Validity[Colin Wight]Chapter 3 - Substance, Form and Content: Scholarly Communities, Institutions and the Nature of IR[Torbjorn L. Knutsen]Chapter 4 - The Role of Theory for Knowledge Creation in IR: A Sociable Pluralist Discussion[Annette Freyberg-Inan]Part II: Evaluating Progress in Democratic Peace Research - An Illustrative Case StudyChapter 5 - Bounded Pluralism and Explanatory Progress in International Relations: What We Can Learn from the Democratic Peace Debate?[Fred Chernoff]Chapter 6 - Systemism, Analytic Eclecticism and the Democratic Peace[Jarrod Hayes and Patrick James]Chapter 7 - Rethinking the Democratic Peace: Competing Accounts of `Scientific Progress' in IR[Ewan Harrison]Chapter 8 - The Normative Within the Explanatory: A Critical Take at the Democratic Peace Literature[Piki Ish-Shalom]Chapter 9 - The Closer You Look, the Less You See: Knowledge Cumulation in IR[Laura Sjoberg]Conclusion - Different Standards for Discovery and Confirmation. 
<br/><br/> This edited volume offers a systematic evaluation of how knowledge is produced by scholarly research into International Relations. The contributors explore a number of key questions, including: To what extent is scientific progress and accumulation of knowledge possible, what are the different accounts of how this process takes place, and what are the dominant critiques of these understandings?It is the first publication to survey the full range of perspectives available for evaluating scientific progress as well as dominant critiquesof scientism. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781138674165 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>POLITICAL SCIENCE--Government / International<br/>POLITICAL SCIENCE--International Relations--General<br/>International relations--Philosophy
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>327.101 EV AL