“History Problem” and International Relations

What is History in International Relations?

To some extent, history has always been a core feature of the international imagination. On both sides of the Atlantic, leading figures in the discipline such as E. H. Carr, Hans Morgenthau, Martin Wight, Hedley Bull and Stanley Hoffman have all employed history as a means of illuminating their research. Indeed, Wight made searching the desiderata of international history the sine qua non of in...

Turkey and its international relations in the history of medicine.

My discussions with ISHM members have disclosed considerable interest in the history of the relations that Turkey and its medicine have had with other countries. Dr Lellouch, the secretary of ISHM, originally suggested that I address the subject of Turkish-French relations by means of an essay in Vesalius. This led me to consider a wider ranging paper on Ottoman-European relations. For complete...

Culture and International Relations : The Culture of International Relations

The Agent-Structure Problem in International Relations Theory

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3. The Level-of-Analysis Problem in International Relations

J. David Singer is Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. A pioneer in the effort to render the study of international politics more scientific, his many important works include authorship of Deterrence, Arms Control, and Disarmament (1962) and editorship of Human Behavior and International Politics (1965) and Quantitative International Politics (1968). As can be seen in ...