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This is a reply to Jose Pedro Teixeira Fernandess article, Post-Positivism & Ideology in International Relations Theory, which appeared in the December, 2007 issue of the journal. Fernandes argued that the academic field of international relations is still dominated by a postmodern orthodoxy that arose as an academic trend in the 1980s, and which originally had nothing to do with international relations. The article argues that Fernandes has erred in several important respects. He tends to confuse post-positivism not only with postmodernism, but also with multiculturalism, & then employs these confusions to construct the major premise of his argument. Thus, Fernandess remedies, which are designed to address the negative consequences of the putative postmodern orthodoxy in the study of international relations, are not in fact necessary, & may indeed do substantial harm to the field. R. Young