FUTURE OF IR

Alternate Future of IR

Alternate Future of IR

Introduction

Theoretical debates in International Relations, typically concerned with the scope, and, content of, general theoretical, claims, and, with recurring questions of ontology, epistemology, and, method. There is comparatively little concern with how theories, applied. Yet if theoretical ideas influence how people think about international relations, then it is crucial to ask how, translated into substantive claims about specific empirical episodes. People cannot properly evaluate theories, or, the explanations associated with them without a clear understanding of how those theories, applied and; therefore, they contribute to the understanding of international relations. For, some, idea, that theories are, or could be, deductively applied is part of what identifies them as explanatory theories. For others, it may seem self-evident that such theories, heuristically applied. Thus, many researchers notes that theory use the term for anything, that organizes a, field systematically, structures questions and establishes a coherent and rigorous set of interrelated concepts and categories. It suggests that explanatory claims should not be privileged just because they are theoretically derived. Second, the heuristic functions, which theories perform, may be rather limited, theories like neo realism offer little critical reflection upon the different sorts of questions that might be asked about episodes or range of explanatory factors that might be examined in an effective way. Therefore, all issues related to the future of international relations would be discussed in detail.

Main Body

According to the researcher Smith in 2000, explanatory theory includes neo realism, neo liberalism and much of mainstream constructivism. It is characterized, above all, by positivist premises, explanatory theorists, committed to the view that the social world is amenable to the same kinds of analysis, as the natural world, to a separation between facts, and, values for uncovering patterns, and, regularities that occur in these concepts. Thus, explanatory theorists might be expected to apply their theories in accordance with the covering law model of explanation, in which an episode, explained by subsuming it under general laws, i.e. by showing that it occurred in accordance with those laws, in virtue of the realization of certain specified antecedent conditions. Neo realists seek to show how balancing behavior, driven by the anarchic structure of the international system. Neo liberals seek to show how institutions facilitate cooperation under anarchy, and, mainstream constructivists seek to show how states' interests, and, identities, socially constructed. If applied in accordance with the covering law model, these theories would be used to show that an outcome was to be expected because the specified antecedent conditions, fulfilled. In such circumstances, the outcome could be deduced from the theory's reported covering laws (Andreas, 1998).

Some theorists have attempted to apply explanatory theories deductively. For example, researcher known as Posen in 1984 made an attempt to compare organization theory, and, neorealist balance of power theory 'by deducing propositions' about French, British, and, German military doctrine during the interwar period. However, he is unable to make these deductions: in order to construct neorealist hypotheses about military doctrine, ...