Explaining and Understanding in the Social Sciences: Is it Beneficial for our Understanding of IR to Combine Positivist and Post-Positivist Philosophies of Science?

Essay from the year 2004 in the subject Politics - General and Theories of International Politics, grade: 2+ (B+), University of Kent (Brussels School of International Studies), language: English, abstract: 85 years after its formal establishment , the discipline of International Relations is currently engaged in what is known as the ‘Third Debate’. At the heart of this debate is the question “to ...