Sense and sensibility in the study of state socialisation: A reply to Kai Alderson

Review of International Studies

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 543-550+464

  Thies, Cameron G ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 10744229882     PISSN: 02602105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0260210503005436     Document Type: Review

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6. Kenneth N. Waltz, Theory of International Politics (Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1979); G. John Ikenberry and Charles A. Kupchan, 'Socialization and Hegemonic Power', International Organization, 44:3 (1990), pp. 283-315; David Armstrong, Revolution and World Order (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993); Joao Resende-Santos, 'Anarchy and the Emulation of Military Systems', Security Studies, 5 (1996), pp. 193-260; Martha Finnemore and Kathryn Sikkink, 'International Norm Dynamics and Political Change', International Organization, 52:4 (1998), pp. 887-917; Alexander Wendt, Social Theory of International Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999); Frank Schimmelfennig, 'International Socialization in the New Europe: Rational Action in an Institutional Environment', European Journal of International Relations, 6:1 (2000), pp. 109-39; Alastair Iain Johnston, 'Treating International Institutions as Social Environments', International Studies Quarterly, 45:4 (2001), pp. 487-515.
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10. Alderson's attempt to impose a 'consensus' definition on p. 417 is quite different from Stephen Krasner's efforts to produce such a definition of regimes out of the proceedings of a conference of scholars organised to produce the 1982 special issue of International Organization.
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51. The agent-structure debate in international relations was launched with the publication of Alexander Wendt's, 'The Agent-Structure Problem in International Relations Theory', International Organization 41 (1987), pp. 335-70. Much of the subsequent debate between Wendt, Martin Hollis, Steve Smith and others occurred in the pages of this Review.
52. Long and Hadden, 'A Reconception of Socialization', p. 39.