Agents, Structures and International Relations: Politics as OntologyCambridge University Press, 2006年10月12日 - 340 頁 The agent-structure problem is a much discussed issue in the field of international relations. In his comprehensive 2006 analysis of this problem, Colin Wight deconstructs the accounts of structure and agency embedded within differing IR theories and, on the basis of this analysis, explores the implications of ontology - the metaphysical study of existence and reality. Wight argues that there are many gaps in IR theory that can only be understood by focusing on the ontological differences that construct the theoretical landscape. By integrating the treatment of the agent-structure problem in IR theory with that in social theory, Wight makes a positive contribution to the problem as an issue of concern to the wider human sciences. At the most fundamental level politics is concerned with competing visions of how the world is and how it should be, thus politics is ontology. |
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... explain a more basic layer could claim explanatory primacy over those explaining a less basic layer . Such explanations are common . Modern genetics seems to suggest all explanations of human behaviour can be traced to the one level ...
... explain a more basic layer could claim explanatory primacy over those explaining a less basic layer . Such explanations are common . Modern genetics seems to suggest all explanations of human behaviour can be traced to the one level ...
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... explain some big , impor- tant , and enduring patterns 106 ( emphasis added ) . Thus , Waltz never intended his theory to explain such a momentous change as the end of the Cold War . Whatever the faults of Waltz's theory , and these are ...
... explain some big , impor- tant , and enduring patterns 106 ( emphasis added ) . Thus , Waltz never intended his theory to explain such a momentous change as the end of the Cold War . Whatever the faults of Waltz's theory , and these are ...
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... explain a given social event . In order to explain particular events , ' structural - understanding ' needs to be com- plemented by ' historical - explanation ' . ' Historical - explanation ' has the logic of a narrative that connects ...
... explain a given social event . In order to explain particular events , ' structural - understanding ' needs to be com- plemented by ' historical - explanation ' . ' Historical - explanation ' has the logic of a narrative that connects ...
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