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IR436 Lecture 19 2011-12George Lawson

History and the International

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The return of history?Carr, Morgenthau, Wight, Hoffman

Behaviourism, Waltz and the positivists

The return of history: English School, constructivism, neo-classical realism

Caution…

POLITICAL SCIENCE

HISTORY

METHODS Secondary sources Primary sources

AIMS Regularities, continuities

Contingencies, change

ORIENTATION Nomothetic Idiographic

SCOPE CONDITIONS

Analytic Temporal

CAUSATION Transhistorical Context specific

LEVELS Structure Agency

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What is history?“history is a science, no less and no

more”“historia magistra vitae”“the art of history is always the art of

narrative”“history is not a narrative. The historians

task is to explain what happened”“history is a nightmare from which I’m

trying to escape”

ContextCarr: history as a social processSkinner: what is the author trying to do?

But:• How do we get to motivations?• What is our vantage point?• Internal traditions• Cultural continuities