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Theory of International Politics

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The article was published on 1979-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 7932 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Global politics & International relations.

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Autocratic Audience Costs: Regime Type and Signaling Resolve

TL;DR: This article argued that the conventional hypothesis underestimates the extent to which non-democratic leaders can be held accountable domestically, allowing them to generate audience costs, and they identified three factors contributing to audience costs: domestic polit- ical groups can and will coordinate to punish the leader; whether the audience views backing down negatively; and whether outsiders can observe the possibility of domes- tic sanctions for backing down.
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What's at stake in the agent-structure debate?

TL;DR: In this paper, an ontological case for adopting a transformational model of structure over the "positional" model developed in the work of Kenneth Waltz is presented. But the ontological model offers no conceptual or explanatory hold on those features of the international structure that are the intended products of state action, and the authors argue that the stakes in the agent-structure debate include the capacity to generate integrative structural theory and the ability to theorize the possibilities for peaceful change in the international system.
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Counterfactuals and Hypothesis Testing in Political Science

TL;DR: Counterfactual argument has been widely used in comparative politics and international relations as discussed by the authors to evaluate causal hypotheses by referring to counterfactual cases where a hypothesized causal factor is supposed to have been absent.
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The Evolution of International Security Studies

TL;DR: A survey of the literature and institutions of International Security Studies (ISS) can be found in this paper, along with a detailed institutional account of ISS in terms of its journals, departments, think tanks and funding sources.
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Sovereignty, International Relations, and the Westphalian Myth

TL;DR: The 350th anniversary of the Peace of Westphalia in 1998 was largely ignored by the discipline of international relations (IR), despite the fact that it regards that event as the beginning of the international system with which it has traditionally dealt as mentioned in this paper.
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Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes

Imre Lakatos
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Introduction to cybernetics

TL;DR: This book contains the collected and unified material necessary for the presentation of such branches of modern cybernetics as the theory of electronic digital computers, Theory of discrete automata, theory of discrete self-organizing systems, automation of thought processes, theoryof image recognition, etc.
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Barriers to New Competition

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