International Relations. A self-Study Guide to Theory

Manuela Spindler 
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Index
Agency and structure 106, 112, 113, 114, 
115, 137, 176, 197, 210, 215, 217, 221, 
222 
Allison, Graham T. 160, 173 
American Institute of International Affairs
22 
Anarchy 32, 129, 132, 133, 137, 138, 139, 
154, 164, 209, 223 
Ancient Greece 17, 23, 24, 39, 43, 44, 45, 
46, 51, 56, 76, 79 
Angell, Norman 20 
Annales School 177, 182 
Antireductionism 57 
Aquinas, Thomas 78 
Aristarchos of Samos 70 
Aristotle 39, 45, 56, 70, 75, 76, 77 
Astrophysics 83, 91 
Atomism 36, 46, 50, 52, 53, 55, 61, 77, 82, 
83, 84, 92, 97, 110 
Atomist materialism 46 
Authoritative allocation of values 27, 28, 30 
Axelrod, Robert 153, 156 
Bacon, Francis 44, 85 
Balance of power 123 
Balance-of-power politics 134 
Balance-of-power theory 127, 135, 138, 148 
Behavioral revolution 61, 63 
Bell, John 95 
Bhaskar, Roy 52, 202, 203 
Biology 39, 51, 57, 86, 99 
Biophilosophy 58, 222 
Body and mind 84 
Bohr, Niels 93, 94, 96 
Born rule 94 
Born, Max 93 
Braudel, Fernand 176, 181, 182 
British Institute of International Affairs 22 
Capitalist world-economy 175, 183, 184, 
185, 186, 187, 188, 189 
Carnap, Rudolf 55 
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
20, 22 
Cartesian science 103, 223 
Cartesian-Newtonian science 67, 70, 80, 85, 
88, 99 
Causal analysis 59 
Causal effects 51, 133, 134 
Causal relationship 58, 169 
Causal theory 65, 119, 206, 208, 215, 218, 
221 
Causality 58, 87, 106, 113, 114, 115, 116, 
118, 137, 155, 169, 171, 191, 221 
Cause-effect-relationships 58 
CERN 47 
Chemistry 39, 46, 57, 71, 96 
Christendom 17, 78 
Classical mechanics 82, 83, 90, 93, 94 
Classical physics 46, 57, 83, 89, 90, 92, 93, 
95, 96, 97, 98, 222 
Cold War 52, 125, 127, 139, 160, 173, 174, 
216, 219 
Collective actors 28, 111 
Collective ideas 58, 208, 209 
Collective knowledge 112, 195, 198, 208, 
209 
Collective representations 58, 209 
Commercial liberalism 160 
“Common” knowledge 209 
Complementarity Principle 94 
Comte, August 43 
Concept of interdependence 141, 144, 150, 
151, 166 
Concert of Europe 19, 188 
Congress of Vienna 19 
Constitutive explanation 195, 214, 216, 217 
Constitutive theory 195, 215 
Constructivist turn 198, 201 
Cooperation 29, 30, 100, 129, 141, 142, 143, 
148, 149, 153, 154, 155, 156, 159, 165, 
166, 167, 171 
Copenhagen interpretation 95 
Copernicus, Nicolaus 67, 70, 80, 81 

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Core-periphery 175, 185 
Corpuscle theory 82, 83, 90 
Correlates of War project 59 
Correlation 59, 95 
Cosmology 46, 71, 80, 83, 91 
Council on Foreign Relations 22 
Covering law model 60 
Cyclical rhythms 175, 183, 185 
Darwin, Charles 86, 87 
Decision theory 110 
Deductive-nomological model 59 
Democritus 39, 46, 77, 82 
Denkökonomie 56 
Dependency theory 177 
Dependent variable 58, 137, 152, 155, 167, 
169, 215 
Derrida, Jacques 200 
Descartes, René 45, 67, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 
86, 103 
Deutsch, Karl 160, 173 
Dilthey, Wilhelm 57 
Distribution of capabilities 131 
Domestic or state-level analysis 117 
Domestic politics 28, 166, 172, 173 
Doyle, Michael W. 17, 34, 160, 172 
Dual nature of light 67, 90 
Durkheim, Emil 54, 57, 209 
Easton, David 27, 28, 34, 35 
Einstein, Albert 67, 71, 83, 89, 90, 91, 92, 
93, 96, 97, 104 
Elementary particles 46, 67, 92 
Elias, Norbert 84 
Emergence 56, 68, 73, 74, 150, 218 
Empire 17, 18, 177, 181, 184 
Empirical experience 44, 48, 50 
Empiricism 36, 44, 45 
Epicurus 46, 77, 82 
Epistemological 40, 42, 43, 44, 45, 47, 48, 
49, 50, 53, 56, 57, 58, 61, 62, 63, 72, 75, 
76, 77, 80, 83, 107, 108, 109, 110, 112, 
113, 114, 115, 118, 175, 176, 178, 198, 
199, 200, 206, 210, 214, 218, 221 
Epistemological individualism 195, 206 
Epistemological interdependence 195, 218, 
221 
Euclid’s Elements 77, 91 
(European) idea of science 68 
European Middle Ages 13, 16, 17, 18, 25, 
67, 78 
(European) philosophy 68 
European states system 14, 16, 19, 21, 25, 32 
Experimental science 67, 80, 81 
Explanandum 59, 129, 147 
Explanans 59, 129 
Falsification 45 
Faraday, Michael 90 
Feudal state 16, 25 
Feudal tenure system 17 
Feyerabend, Paul 61, 102 
Foedus pacificum 21, 143 
Foreign policy 20, 50, 62, 117, 125, 126, 
130, 135, 136, 151, 152, 159, 160, 163, 
164, 167, 169, 206, 212 
Foucault, Michel 200 
Freedom 21, 26, 29, 32, 33, 78, 79, 135, 145 
Functionalism 143 
Gadamer, Georg 57 
Galileo 67, 70, 80, 81 
Game theory 110, 126 
General theory of relativity 91 
Geneva Protocol 20 
Geocentric (Ptolemaic) world view 69, 80 
Geocentric model 70, 77 
Geocentric world view 69, 70, 75, 76, 77, 80 
Geocentrism 69 
Geo-culture 185, 189 
Great Powers 193 
Great War 22, 23, 24, 26, 37 
Greek antiquity 32, 39, 69, 71, 72, 74, 75, 76, 
77, 78, 79, 98 
Greek philosophy 40, 74, 75, 76, 78, 79 
Grotius, Hugo 19 
Haas, Ernst 143 
Hague Conventions 20 
Hayek, Friedrich 54 
Hegemonic power 187, 188 
Hegemony 127, 148, 153, 187, 188, 189 
Heidegger, Martin 57 
Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle 95 
Heisenberg, Werner 93, 95, 96, 103, 105 
Heliocentric world view 69, 70, 80, 81 
Heliocentrism 69, 70, 71 
Hempel, Carl Gustav 59 
Heraclitus 46, 77 
Hermeneutics 65, 104 
Herz, John 125, 128, 140 
Higgs-Boson 47, 92 
Historical explanation 195, 215, 218, 221 

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Historical institutionalism 144 
Historical system 180, 181, 182, 184, 185, 
190, 191, 192 
Historicism 54, 62 
Hobbes, Thomas 19, 21, 34, 44, 82, 87 
Holistic ontology 197, 202, 209 
Human mind 44, 45, 46, 51, 52, 58, 74, 77, 
85, 87, 203, 204, 220 
Human rights 29, 30, 116, 167 
Humanism 79, 103 
Hume, David 44, 58 
Husserl, Edmund 52 
Hypotheses 38, 44, 45, 49, 50, 56, 70, 75, 76, 
86, 147 
Idealism 45, 208, 220, 221 
Ideas 14, 19, 23, 39, 44, 45, 46, 48, 51, 52, 
60, 68, 69, 71, 72, 74, 77, 78, 79, 82, 83, 
85, 90, 91, 92, 112, 126, 142, 160, 195, 
198, 199, 204, 205, 206, 208, 209, 210, 
217, 219, 220, 221, 222, 225 
Ideational structure 208, 209 
If-then-hypothesis 59 
Individual action 53, 114 
Individualism 36, 46, 47, 53, 54, 55, 61, 65, 
83, 84, 99, 110, 113, 119, 137, 154, 155, 
171, 176, 202, 206, 210 
Inductive-statistical model 60 
Industrial revolution 16, 85, 87, 184 
Institutions 20, 54, 84, 111, 112, 131, 132, 
141, 142, 143, 144, 146, 148, 149, 153, 
154, 163, 165, 166, 171, 173, 181, 185, 
209 
Instrumentalism 36, 49 
Inter-democratic peace 59, 116, 159 
Interdependence 16, 19, 34, 35, 141, 144, 
146, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 155, 
164, 165, 166, 168, 169, 195, 210, 211, 
213, 215, 218, 221 
International cooperation 149, 153, 165, 167 
International institutions 20, 149 
International interdependence 150, 153 
International law 19, 21, 25, 68, 143 
International peace movement 19 
International Relations as science 9, 13, 22, 
23, 36 
Interpretivist epistemology 197 
Interstate interdependence 16 
Issue-areas 145, 147 
Italian states system 16 
Kant, Immanuel 21, 86, 87, 90, 103, 105, 
143, 159 
Katzenstein, Peter J. 160 
Keohane, Robert O. 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 
149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 156, 160, 
165, 173 
Kepler, Johannes 67, 70, 80, 81, 83 
Kissinger, Henry 125 
Kondratieff-cycle 186, 188 
Kuhn, Thomas 61, 66 
Lakatos, Imre 61, 66, 147 
Laplace, Pierre Simon 85 
Law-like explanation 36, 58 
League of Nations 21, 22, 24 
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 45, 86, 103, 
105 
Level of analysis problem 115, 116 
Liberal theory 9, 84, 110, 158, 159, 160, 
161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 
169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 176, 192, 210, 
214 
Linguistic turn 198 
Locke, John 44, 87 
Logical atomism 55 
Logical positivism 55 
Logical reasoning 75, 78 
Longue durée 175, 182, 183, 184 
Luther, Martin 79 
Lyotard, Francois 200 
Mach, Ernst 39 
Machiavelli, Niccolò 18 
Macro and micro 180 
Macro-level structures 221 
Magnus, Albertus 78 
Materialism 36, 45, 103, 104 
Matter 25, 26, 38, 45, 46, 47, 48, 67, 74, 77, 
82, 84, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 97, 98, 
99, 142, 167, 179, 181, 199, 205, 206, 
222 
Maxwell, James C. 90 
Mechanical world view 82, 83, 92 
Medieval European state 17 
Medieval tenure system 18 
Meta-theory 36, 39, 40, 41, 42, 62, 107, 199, 
211 
Methodological holism 54, 113 
Methodological individualism 54 
Methodological nationalism 111 
Methodological statism 111 

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Methodology 36, 41, 42, 43, 44, 47, 50, 53, 
55, 56, 57, 58, 61, 62, 75, 81, 83, 84, 85, 
86, 106, 107, 115 
Meyer, John 144, 157 
Micro-level structures 221 
Military liberalism 160 
Mill, John Stuart 52, 56, 159 
Milner, Helen 168, 173, 174 
Mitrany, David 143 
Modern Age 13, 18, 80 
Modern state 13, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27, 32, 
68, 88, 142 
Modern states system 13, 24, 25, 26, 68, 88 
Modern world-system 175, 181, 184, 185, 
186, 187, 188, 189, 193, 194 
Moments of reflexivity 207, 222 
Monopoly of power 27, 28, 30 
Moravcsik, Andrew 139, 159, 160, 161, 162, 
163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 
172, 173 
Morgenthau, Hans 125 
Multi-causal explanation 170 
Multilateralism 125, 153, 155 
Mutual constitution 114, 195, 210, 211, 215, 
222 
Nationalism 16, 19 
Natural kinds 205, 206 
Natural sciences 37, 39, 43, 46, 47, 57, 58, 
76, 81, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 100, 180, 
203, 205, 222 
Naturalism 36, 45, 203, 206, 222 
Nature of light 83, 90, 93 
Neofunctionalism 143, 160 
Neoliberal institutionalism 144 
Neoliberalism 144 
Neorealist theory 30, 110, 124, 125, 127, 
128, 129, 130, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 
138, 139, 144, 145, 148, 149, 152, 155, 
159, 164, 169, 202, 210 
Neurophilosophy 58, 222 
New liberalism 158, 161, 167, 170 
New ontology 202, 203, 208, 210, 220 
New or neoinstitutionalism 143 
New physics 67, 88 
New scientific world view 67, 85, 87, 88, 89, 
98 
Newton, Isaac 67, 70, 80, 82, 83, 84, 86, 90, 
91, 93, 103, 105 
Newton’s law of gravity 70, 83, 85 
Niebuhr, Reinhold 125 
Nominalism 36, 51, 52 
Non-state actors 28, 29, 30, 32, 111, 128, 
199 
Normative perspective 117, 124, 148, 150, 
159 
Norms 28, 31, 58, 111, 112, 128, 142, 198, 
199, 208, 209, 211 
Nye, Joseph 144, 145, 150, 151, 152, 153, 
156, 160, 165, 173 
“Objective” knowledge 69, 73, 99 
Objectivism 49, 206 
Object-subject distinction 204, 207 
Observables 44, 48, 49, 50, 51, 53, 56, 60, 
203, 204 
Observation 43, 44, 46, 48, 55, 58, 69, 71, 
75, 76, 78, 80, 81, 93, 94, 95, 98, 114, 
116, 126, 177, 178, 204 
Ockham, Wilhelm of 56, 78 
Ockham’s razor 56 
Old institutionalism 143 
Ontological entities 52, 115 
Ontological individualism 53, 202 
Ontological naturalism 45 
Ontology 36, 41, 42, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 
51, 52, 55, 62, 75, 84, 97, 98, 99, 107, 
109, 110, 112, 119, 176, 197, 198, 199, 
200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 207, 208, 
209, 210, 211, 213, 214, 216, 217, 220, 
221, 222, 223 
Operationalism 36, 49 
Operationalization 50 
Oppenheim, Paul 57, 59, 66 
Orders of thought 41, 61, 68, 71, 84,86, 87, 
98, 101, 107 
Paris Peace Conference 22, 32 
Parsimonious theory 56