2. George Lawson IR436 - Theories of international relations: context (week 19) Lecture slides Original citation: Lawson, G. (2012) IR436 - Theories of international relations: context (week 19). [Teaching Resource] © 2012 The Author This version available at: http://learningresources.lse.ac.uk/119/http://learningresources.lse.ac.uk/119/ Available in LSE Learning Resources Online: May 2012 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License. This license allows the user to remix, tweak, and build upon the work even for commercial purposes, as long as the user credits the author and licenses their new creations under the identical terms. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://learningresources.lse.ac.uk/

3. IR436 Lecture 19 2011-12 George Lawson

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5. The return of history? Carr, Morgenthau, Wight, Hoffman Behaviourism, Waltz and the positivists The return of history: English School, constructivism, neo-classical realism

6. Caution… POLITICAL SCIENCEHISTORY METHODSSecondary sourcesPrimary sources AIMSRegularities, continuitiesContingencies, change ORIENTATIONNomotheticIdiographic SCOPE CONDITIONSAnalyticTemporal CAUSATIONTranshistoricalContext specific LEVELSStructureAgency http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Caution_sig n_used_on_roads_pn.svg

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8. What is history? “history is a science, no less and no more” “historia magistra vitae” “the art of history is always the art of narrative” “history is not a narrative. The historians task is to explain what happened” “history is a nightmare from which I’m trying to escape”

9. Context Carr: history as a social process Skinner: what is the author trying to do? But: How do we get to motivations? What is our vantage point? Internal traditions Cultural continuities