Book chapter
Inside the American State: Reconciling Structural and Interpretive Analyses within a Critical Realist Perspective
Scientific Realism and International Relations, pp 88-100
01 Jan 2010
Abstract
The objectives of this chapter are both practical and theoretical. At the practical level, the purpose of this chapter is to contribute to a better understanding of how the US decided to go to war against Iraq in 2003. In its approach to this question, however, the chapter also pursues a theoretical objective. Specifically, with increasing challenges to the once hegemonic political realism, it has become clear that states cannot be understood exclusively as monadic rational actors. Instead, their internal decision-making processes must also be studied (Wight, 2007).
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- Title
- Inside the American State: Reconciling Structural and Interpretive Analyses within a Critical Realist Perspective
- Creators
- Douglas Porpora
- Publication Details
- Scientific Realism and International Relations, pp 88-100
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK; London
- Number of pages
- 13
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Communication
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000292703200005
- Other Identifier
- 991019170394704721
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- Economics
- International Relations
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