Induction and Deduction in International Relations: Squaring the Circle Between Theory and Evidence

Blagden, David

doi:10.1093/isr/viw004

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“…Questions such as these can be answered through subsequent actions, as a given figure is updated on the basis of either debate or new research findings. The process just described is in line with the compelling argument from Blagden (2016; see also Brecher, 1999) that successful research entails both deductive and inductive elements. Systemism puts this pragmatic point of view into action.…”

Section: Crisis Escalation War and Systemismsupporting

confidence: 71%

What do we know about crisis, escalation and war? A visual assessment of the International Crisis Behavior Project

James

2018

Conflict Management and Peace Science

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This study uses a visualization technique, systemism, to integrate ICB Project findings about crisis, escalation and war in particular. The domain of the analysis, 1999-2017, is the period following the authoritative review of research in Michael Brecher (1999; International studies in the twentieth century and beyond: Flawed dichotomies, syntheses, cumulation, International Studies Quarterly 43: 213-264) up to the present. Systemism is used to combine, in graphic form, substantively significant results from ICB Project research. Insights about cause and effect for escalation processes are obtained that would not readily be available in the absence of graphic representation. This learning is made possible through application of systemism, a visualization technique, to convey a network of variables leading into war.

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Section: Crisis Escalation War and Systemismsupporting

confidence: 71%

What do we know about crisis, escalation and war? A visual assessment of the International Crisis Behavior Project

James

2018

Conflict Management and Peace Science

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“…In our application of the migration state concept to postcolonial contexts, we utilise both inductive and deductive inference (Achen, 2002), in order to move beyond the veneration of pure deduction within positivist International Relations in the Waltzian tradition (Blagden, 2016). We incorporate induction at the beginning of the theorisation process (Wagner, 2007: 2-8), by drawing from a variety of literatures on nation-building, citizenship and diasporas in order to identify the processes that transform the postcolonial state into a postcolonial migration state.…”

Section: Cross-border Mobility In the Global South And The Migration Statementioning

confidence: 99%

The postcolonial migration state

Sadiq

Tsourapas

2021

European Journal of International Relations

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The evolution of migration policymaking across the Global South is of growing interest to International Relations. Yet, the impact of colonial and imperial legacies on states’ migration management regimes outside Europe and North America remains under-theorised. How does postcolonial state formation shape policies of cross-border mobility management in the Global South? By bringing James F. Hollifield’s framework of the contemporary ‘migration state’ in conversation with critical scholarship on postcolonialism, we identify the existence of a ‘postcolonial paradox,’ namely two sets of tensions faced by newly independent states of the Global South: first, the need to construct a modern sovereign nation-state with a well-defined national identity contrasts with weak institutional capacity to do so; second, territorial realities of sovereignty conflict with the imperatives of nation-building seeking to establish exclusive citizenship norms towards populations residing both inside and outside the boundaries of the postcolonial state. We argue that the use of cross-border mobility control policies to reconcile such tensions transforms the ‘postcolonial state’ into the ‘postcolonial migration state,’ which shows distinct continuities with pre-independence practices. In fact, postcolonial migration states reproduce colonial-era tropes via the surveillance and control of segmented migration streams that redistribute labour for the global economy. We demonstrate this via a comparative study of post-independence migration management in India and Egypt, which also aims to merge a problematic regional divide between scholarship on the Middle East and South Asia. We urge further critical interventions on the international politics of migration that prioritise interregional perspectives from the broader Global South.

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“…In addition, there is a sense that much Whitehall business is done on the informal fringes of formal gatherings; we set out to explore this formal/informal interface. Our approach thus reflects a feedback loop between inductive and deductive inference (Blagden, 2016). We answer our guiding research question, ‘Does the recent re-structuring of the UK’s security process represent an improvement in UK security policymaking that equips the British state with the policy flexibility needed to protect its citizens in an uncertain future?’ by disaggregating it into three parts.…”

Section: Elite Interviewsmentioning

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A Very British National Security State: Formal and informal institutions in the design of UK security policy

Thomson

Blagden

2018

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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What are the roles of government institutions in the design and implementation of effective national security policy? Using the case of post-2010 reform to Britain's central government security policy machinery, we find that formal institutions can help the informal strategy-making institutions on their periphery to function better. Through interviews with 25 senior officials, we find that Britain's National Security Council and quinquennial Strategic Defence and Security Reviews-both instituted in 2010 with the intention of improving UK security policymaking-remain limited as formal makers of national strategy. But the networks of individuals and ideas they support, by absolving some decision-makers of audience costs while immersing others in creative yet coherent strategydevelopment communities, have improved the overall quality of UK security policymaking compared to its pre-2010 condition. This finding also carries implications for other contexts and thus represents a promising avenue for future research.

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Induction and Deduction in International Relations: Squaring the Circle Between Theory and Evidence

Cited by 22 publications

References 52 publications

What do we know about crisis, escalation and war? A visual assessment of the International Crisis Behavior Project

What do we know about crisis, escalation and war? A visual assessment of the International Crisis Behavior Project

The postcolonial migration state

A Very British National Security State: Formal and informal institutions in the design of UK security policy

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