This article reviews four recent books on balancing and the balance of power. Both in
isolation and when taken together, they provide strong analytical and empirical warrants …

Abstract The discipline of International Relations (IR) does not reflect the voices,
experiences, knowledge claims, and contributions of the vast majority of the societies and …

Process tracing is a method that aims to trace causal mechanisms as they play out in real-
world cases using in-depth case studies. The analytical focus is on understanding the …

It is increasingly clear that the world of climate politics is no longer confined to the activities
of national governments and international negotiations. Critical to this transformation of the …

Critical realism is a philosophy of science that positions itself against the major alternative
philosophies underlying contemporary sociology. This book offers a general critique of …

The authors explore three ways of conducting causal analysis in case studies. They draw on
established practices as well as on recent innovations in case study methodology and …

Pushing postcolonial studies and constructivist International Relations towards an uneasy
dialogue, this book looks at Russia as a subaltern empire. It demonstrates how the dialectic …

The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations first edition was winner of the ISA-
Northeast's Yale H. Ferguson Award, and the ISA Theory Section's Best Book of the Year …

This paper has two overarching goals–to summarize recent developments on the
philosophical and practical dimensions of process tracing, and to identify features common …

Drawing on evolutionary epistemology, process ontology, and a social-cognition approach,
this book suggests cognitive evolution, an evolutionary-constructivist social and normative …