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Teaching policy studies: what and how
In: Policy studies organization series 18
Simulation in the study of politics
In: Markham political science series
The functions of international law: an introduction to the role of international law in the contemporary world
In: Rand MacNally political science series
Symposium on teaching policy studies [fourteen articles]
In: Policy studies journal: an international journal of public policy, Band 6, S. 302-392
ISSN: 0190-292X
INTRODUCTION BY THE SYMPOSIUM EDITOR
In: Policy studies journal: the journal of the Policy Studies Organization, Band 6, Heft 2, S. 302-304
ISSN: 1541-0072
ON TEACHING POLICY STUDIES
In: Policy studies journal: the journal of the Policy Studies Organization, Band 5, Heft 1, S. 125-131
ISSN: 1541-0072
A Dissenting Viewpoint on Comparative Government Texts: Comments on the Smaldone-Furniss Discussion
In: International Studies Quarterly, Band 19, Heft 3, S. 375
International Law in a Changing World: Cases, Documents, and Readings. Edited, with Introductions by Jr. Edward Collins, (New York: Random House, 1970. pp. xv, 493. Appendix. Index.)
In: American journal of international law: AJIL, Band 66, Heft 4, S. 913-913
ISSN: 2161-7953
The Status of Law in International Society. By Richard A. Falk Princeton N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1970. pp. xvi, 678. Index. $15.00
In: American journal of international law: AJIL, Band 65, Heft 3, S. 637-639
ISSN: 2161-7953
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS IN THE FUTURE INTERNATIONAL BARGAINING PROCESS: A THEORETICAL PROJECTION
In: Journal of international affairs, Band 25, Heft 2, S. 287
ISSN: 0022-197X
The State System Exercise: A Teaching Note
In: International Studies Quarterly, Band 14, Heft 4, S. 412
The International Relations Dictionary. By Jack C. Piano and Roy Olton. (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1969. pp. xiv, 337. Index. $3.95.)
In: American journal of international law: AJIL, Band 64, Heft 2, S. 464-465
ISSN: 2161-7953
Inter-Nation Simulation and Contemporary Theories of International Relations
In: American political science review, Band 60, Heft 3, S. 562-578
ISSN: 1537-5943
The purpose of this article is to compare the Inter-Nation Simulation (INS)—developed by Harold Guetzkow and his colleagues at North-western University and now employed in a number of universities throughout the country—to verbal theories of international relations. It will not be a discussion of the methodological foundations of the simulation but an analytical comparison, primarily on the level of middle-range theory, of the substantive assumptions contained in INS with contemporary international relations theory.Although the primary purpose of this article is to compare the two bodies of theory, it will inevitably raise questions concerning the validity of the Inter-Nation Simulation model and the value of simulation as a general approach to theory. In terms of the former question, it is necessary to remember that the simulators themselves are theorists, albeit a special type. Consequently, the comparison is more a reliability check on simulation and verbal theorists than a validity check on either. The lack of congruence between the assumptions of the simulation and the assumptions of the verbal theorists does not necessarily indicate that the simulation model lacks validity, since the verbal theorist has no monopoly on valid hypotheses.If the author's assumption that simulation is a way of theorizing about international relations is correct, the following comparison should yield some idea about the value of simulation in building a firm theoretical basis for a science of international relations. Forced to be abstract as well as explicit and parsimonious, those using simulation must approach the task of theorizing with a different operational code than the verbal theorists.