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Overview
The concepts of agency and structure are of increasing and defining importance to international relations and politics as fields of enquiry and knowledge. This is the first book to explore the two concepts in depth in that context.The agent-structure problem refers to questions concerning the interrelationship of agency and structure, and to the ways in which explanations of social phenomena integrate and account for them. This is an important contribution to the study of international relations and politics.
Synopsis
The concepts of agency and structure are of increasing and defining importance to international relations and politics as fields of enquiry and knowledge. This is the first book to explore the two concepts in depth in that context.
The agent-structure problem refers to questions concerning the interrelationship of agency and structure, and to the ways in which explanations of social phenomena integrate and account for them. This is an important contribution to the study of international relations and politics.
Booknews
An ontological analysis of the agent-structure problem in international politics. Rather than limiting themselves to the strictly theoretical realm, the authors derive from the ontological considerations a theoretical framework for the empirical analysis of international relations. In the process they offer a critique of neorealism and its critics, some theoretical implications of a methodological individualist approach to international politics, and a discussion of change and transformation of values underlying international politics. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.