Paradigmatic faults in international-relations theory

International Studies Quarterly

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 907-930

  Jackson, Patrick Thaddeus ^a   Nexon, Daniel H ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED APPROACH; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; PARADIGM SHIFT; RESEARCH PROGRAM; THEORETICAL STUDY;

KUHNIA;

EID: 71749118192     PISSN: 00208833     EISSN: 14682478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2478.2009.00562.x     Document Type: Article

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