Positivism (international relations)

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In international relations theory, positivism refers to a school of thought which believes that the methodologies of the natural sciences can help explain the social world.

See also [edit]

Post-positivism in international relations theory

v t e International relations theory

Realism	Neoclassical realism Neorealism Classical realism Offensive realism Defensive realism Liberal realism (the English School) Relative gains Absolute gains Strategic realism

Liberalism	Idealism Democratic peace theory Republican liberalism Institutionalism Neoliberalism Sociological liberalism Institutional liberalism

Constructivism	Modern constructivism Post-modern constructivism Feminist constructivism

Marxism	Neo-Gramscianism Critical Security Studies Critical Theory

Other theories	Anarchy (international relations) International political economy Feminism Green theory World-systems theory Structuralism Post-structuralism The English School Functionalism Post modernism Postcolonialism

Classifications	Critical Theory Dependency theory Positivism Postpositivism Rationalism Reflectivism Foundationalism Anti-Foundationalism Behaviouralism "Great Debates" Inter-paradigm debate

Positivist
perspectives

Declinations

Logical positivism within Analytic philosophy
Postpositivism
Sociological positivism
Legal positivism
Rankean historical positivism
Machian positivism (Empirio-criticism)
Polish positivism
Russian positivism (Empiriomonism)
Positivism in international relations
Positivist school of criminology

Main concepts

Antitheses

Debate

Related debates over method	Methodenstreit of economics (1890s) Werturteilsstreit (1909) Positivismusstreit (1960s) Science Wars (1990s)

Contributions	The Course in Positive Philosophy (1830) A General View of Positivism (1848) The Analysis of Sensations (1886) The Logic of Modern Physics (1927) Language, Truth, and Logic (1936) The Two Cultures (1959) The Universe in a Nutshell (2001)

Proponents	Auguste Comte Émile Durkheim Richard Avenarius Vienna Circle Berlin Circle

Criticism	Materialism and Empirio-criticism (1909) History and Class Consciousness (1923) The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934) The Poverty of Historicism (1936) World Hypotheses (1942) Two Dogmas of Empiricism (1951) Truth and Method (1960) Conjectures and Refutations (1963) One-Dimensional Man (1964) Knowledge and Human Interests (1968) The Poverty of Theory (1978) The Scientific Image (1980) The Rhetoric of Economics (1986)

Critics	Wilhelm Dilthey Max Weber Gaston Bachelard György Lukács Theodor Adorno Hans-Georg Gadamer Karl Popper Thomas Kuhn Paul Feyerabend Mario Bunge

Contended concepts	Truth Knowledge Verstehen Phronesis

Related
paradigm shifts in the
history of science

Non-Euclidean geometry (1830s)
Heisenberg uncertainty principle (1927)

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