2020
DOI: 10.1057/s41311-019-00173-z
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Theoretical rigor and the study of contemporary cases: explaining post-cold war China–Russia relations

Abstract: It has been widely noted that China and Russia have grown progressively closer over the last two decades. Although the scholarly literature has offered detailed descriptions and various ad hoc explanations of this trend, the Sino-Russian bilateral relationship has been the subject of very little scrutiny using rigorous theory, which has obstructed hypothesis formation and evaluation. Moreover, the cooperative post-Cold War trend in the bilateral relationship seems puzzling for baseline versions of each of the … Show more

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“…Typically, the editor of a recent special issue of International Politics dedicated to Sino-Russian relations lamented that the topic 'has been the subject of very little scrutiny using rigorous theory, which has obstructed hypothesis formation and evaluation' (Yoder 2020). However, where this empirical testing has occurred, its results are often not so much taken to falsify the theory than to demonstrate the deviance of the area from a universal norm; as Morten Valbjorn pointed out with respect to another region, in many of these cases 'it has been the Middle East rather than the theory that somehow has been considered wrong' (Valbjørn 2017: 649).…”
Section: Ir Theory Area Studies and The (Im)possibility Of Dialoguementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Typically, the editor of a recent special issue of International Politics dedicated to Sino-Russian relations lamented that the topic 'has been the subject of very little scrutiny using rigorous theory, which has obstructed hypothesis formation and evaluation' (Yoder 2020). However, where this empirical testing has occurred, its results are often not so much taken to falsify the theory than to demonstrate the deviance of the area from a universal norm; as Morten Valbjorn pointed out with respect to another region, in many of these cases 'it has been the Middle East rather than the theory that somehow has been considered wrong' (Valbjørn 2017: 649).…”
Section: Ir Theory Area Studies and The (Im)possibility Of Dialoguementioning
confidence: 99%