Rudra Sil, Katzenstein P.J. Beyond Paradigms: Analytic Eclecticism in the Study of World Politics

Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 263 p.While paradigm-bound research has generated powerful insights in international relations, it has fostered a tunnel vision that hinders progress and widens the chasm between theory and policy. In this important new book, Sil and Katzenstein draw upon recent scholarship to illustrate the benefits of a more pragmatic and eclectic style of research.List of figures, tables and boxesAnalytic eclecticism
Paradigms and research traditions
What analytic eclecticism is and does
Recognizing analytic eclecticism
Eclecticism, pragmatism, and paradigms in international relations
The limits of the inter-paradigm debate
What eclecticism can contribute
Analytic eclecticism and the pragmatist turn
War and peace, security and insecurity
Robert Jervis, American Foreign Policy in a New Era (2005)
Martha Finnemore, The Purpose of Intervention (2003)
Etel Solingen, Nuclear Logics (2007)
T. V. Paul, The Tradition of Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons (2009)
David Kang, China Rising (2007)Global political economy
Leonard Seabrooke, The Social Sources of Financial Power (2006)
Timothy Sinclair, The New Masters of Capital (2005)
Cornelia Woll, Firm Interests (2008)
Nicolas Jabko, Playing the Market (2006)
Richard Stubbs, Rethinking Asia’s Economic Miracle (2005)Order and governance, regional and global
Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore, Rules for the World (2004)
Benjamin Schiff, Building the International Criminal Court (2008)
Ian Hurd, After Anarchy (2007)
Frank Schimmelfennig, The EU, NATO and the Integration of Europe (2003)
Alice Ba, [Re]Negotiating East and Southeast Asia (2009)Lessons from eclectic scholarship
The risks, trade-offs, and promise of analytic eclecticism
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