Progress in international relations theory: appraising the field/ edited by Colin Elman and Miriam Fendius Elman - Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003. - xiv, 503 p. ; 24 cm. - (BCSIA studies in international security) .

Foreword : Thoughts about assaying theories / Kenneth N. Waltz --
Introduction : Appraising progress in international relations theory / Colin Elman and Miriam Fendius Elman --
Lessons from Lakatos / Colin Elman and Miriam Fendius Elman --
Institutional theory as a research program / Robert O. Keohane and Lisa L. Martin --
The power transition research program : a Lakatosian analysis / Jonathan M. DiCicco and Jack S. Levy --
Liberal international relations theory : a scientific assessment / Andrew Moravcsik --
A Lakatosian view of the democratic peace research program / James Lee Ray --
Operational code analysis as a scientific research program : a cautionary tale / Stephen G. Walker --
Realism, neoliberalism, and cooperation : understanding the debate / Robert Jervis --
The progressiveness of neoclassical realism / Randall L. Schweller --
"Is" and "ought" : evaluating empirical aspects of normative research / Jack Snyder --
Explanation and scientific progress / David Dessler --
Measuring intra-programmatic progress / Roslyn Simowitz --
Kuhn vs. Lakatos? The case for multiple frames in appraising IR theory / John A. Vasquez --
A Lakatosian reading of Lakatos : what can we salvage from the hard core? / Andrew Bennett.

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