Kenneth Waltz, Adam Smith and the Limits of Science: Hard choices for neoclassical realism

Quinn, Adam

doi:10.1057/ip.2013.5

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“…In response, NCR's advocates order their intervening variables in two ways: One is to systematize the intervening variables' likely interaction and influence on state behavior (Ripsman et al, 2016). Another is to categorize the different intervening variables, which highlights the differences and richness within NCR (Onea, 2012;Quinn, 2013;Rathbun, 2008;NR Smith, 2018;Taliaferro, 2000;Wivel, 2005). It is this richness that allows neoclassical realists to speak and contribute to global IR.…”

Section: Neoclassical Realism and Global Irmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Critics argue that NCR lacks theoretical consistency, employs intervening variables ad hoc, and theorizes in a regressive and degenerative manner (Legro and Moravcsik, 1999; Narizny, 2017; Rathbun, 2008; NR Smith, 2018; Wivel, 2005: 367–370). In response, NCR’s advocates order their intervening variables in two ways: one is to systematize the intervening variables’ likely interaction and influence on state behavior (Ripsman et al, 2016); another is to categorize the different intervening variables, which highlights the differences and richness within NCR (Onea, 2012; Quinn, 2013; Rathbun, 2008; NR Smith, 2018; Taliaferro, 2000; Wivel, 2005). It is this richness that allows neoclassical realists to speak and contribute to global IR.…”

Section: Neoclassical Realism and Global Irmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Realist avenues to global International Relations

Foulon

Meibauer

2020

European Journal of International Relations

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Realism has long been criticized by global IR, but the former can contribute to the latter and thereby improve explanations of international relations. Global IR criticizes that realism supposedly applies universally, sidelines non-Western perspectives, and misunderstands much of foreign policy, grand strategy, and international affairs. Reviewing global IR’s case against realism, however, exposes avenues for realism to complement global IR. Realism can contribute to a more global understanding of international relations through its most recent variant: neoclassical realism (NCR). This newest realism allows for contextualization and historicization of drivers of state behavior. It can embrace and has already been engaging global questions and cases; global thought and concepts; and global perspectives and scholarship. Mapping 149 NCR publications produced by 96 scholars reveals a slow shift in knowledge production away from North America toward Europe and to a lesser extent Asia and Africa. Creative research designs and scholarly collaboration can put realism in fruitful conversation with global IR. This has implications for theory building and inclusive knowledge production in realism, global IR, and the wider discipline. Only when we discover new avenues for realists to travel can they contribute to a more global IR. In turn, when global IR scholars engage realism, they may be better able to address the Western versus non-Western dichotomies they challenge.

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Section: Neoclassical Realism and Global Irmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Neoclassical Realism and Global Irmentioning

confidence: 99%

Realist avenues to global International Relations

Foulon

Meibauer

2020

European Journal of International Relations

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“…Unfortunately, only one of the chapters in this collection, Battisela's (2012) Second, and related, the turn to Britain and German-Soviet Relations could potentially overcome some of the tensions identified in marrying the parsimony of Waltz's determinative structure with a more contingent and empirically richer approach to foreign policy analysis. Quinn (2013) contends that neoclassical realism's focus on an ever-expanding set of unitlevel variables puts neoclassical realism on a 'collision course' (p. 164) with its intellectual baseline. His solution to this dilemma is to argue that, rather than being complementary to neorealism, neoclassical realism's bolder and more authentic contribution rests in its capacity for offering a challenge to neorealism (that is, by showing where and how states have, over the long-term, eschewed system imperatives and escaped systemic punishment) (Quinn, 2013, pp.…”

Section: Contemporary Reconstruction: Britain German-soviet Relationmentioning

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A reassessment of E.H. Carr and the realist tradition: Britain, German–Soviet Relations and neoclassical realism

Smith

2017

Int Polit

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“…Others purport that neo‐ and neoclassical realism are complementary. Quinn () wonders whether NCR seeks to explain state behavior within a neorealist paradigm, or instead, to question the primacy of Waltz' structural constraints. Freyberg‐Inan et al.…”

Section: Neoclassical Realism Vis‐à‐vis Its Close Challengersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…5 Others purport that neo-and neoclassical realism are complementary. Quinn (2013) wonders whether NCR seeks to explain state behavior within a neorealist paradigm, or instead, to question the primacy of Waltz' structural constraints. Freyberg-Inan et al (2009a:256-258) view contemporary realism as an extension of neorealism and distinguish between elaborated structural realism and NCR.…”

Section: Neoclassical Realism As An Extension Of Neorealismmentioning

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Neoclassical Realism: Challengers and Bridging Identities

Foulon

2015

Int Stud Rev

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This article anchors neoclassical realism (NCR) as a solid theoretical framework which departs from Wendtian constructivism, Moravcsik's liberal theory, and Putnam's two‐level game liberalism. NCR moves away from these other approaches by bridging three divides: the spatial (domestic–international), the cognitive (matter‐ideas), and the temporal (present–future). What matters is not what states have to do because the structure compels them so (as Waltz and Wendt would want us to believe). Looking at what domestic interest groups want states to do (as Moravcsik and Putnam suggest) is also unsatisfactory. Rather, what can states do to represent domestic economic interests within the predefined geopolitical context? The argument here is that a version of geopolitical structure is external to the state and binds. However, a perceptual layer at the level of state policymaker affects the operationalization of that structure. Domestic economic forces make themselves felt through state‐level policymakers, but only within the predefined context of binding structural factors that constrain. The findings from this study are vastly different from previous studies, suggesting that NCR's triple bridging identity distinguishes it from other IR theories.

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Kenneth Waltz, Adam Smith and the Limits of Science: Hard choices for neoclassical realism

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Realist avenues to global International Relations

Realist avenues to global International Relations

A reassessment of E.H. Carr and the realist tradition: Britain, German–Soviet Relations and neoclassical realism

Neoclassical Realism: Challengers and Bridging Identities

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