„Cunoastem ceea ce vedem sau vedem ceea ce stim?”. Evolutia explicatiei în relatiile internationale. Morgenthau, Waltz, Wendt

Authors

  • Magdalena Albulescu PhD

Abstract

The present paper intends to identify some perspectives on theoretical validation and application of scientific methods in two major currents: realism (in two of his hypostases: classical realism theorized by Hans Morghentau, neorealism as developed by Kenneth Waltz) and Alexander Wendt’s constructivism. This analysis uses the concept of “cumulative knowledge”, a type of that explanation that relates to the results of another explanation that it re-evaluates. From this point of view, I argue that the three authors, even in the case of the concepts (state, international system and change of international system) that they define in a different ways, transfer meanings from one to another.

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Published

2020-12-22