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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 The Analysis of International Policy-Making -- Political Arenas and Political Reverberation -- Politics, Politicization, Political Will and Political Capacity -- European Integration -- Studying the Politics of European Integration -- Four Variations on a Theme -- 2 Fiscal Harmonization in Theory and Practice -- Harmonization -- Fiscal Harmonization -- Patterns and Puzzles -- 3 West Germany and the Community VAT -- Fiscal Reform in West Germany -- The Politics of Delay -- The German VAT and the Community VAT -- West Germany and the Politics of Fiscal Harmonization -- 4 The Dutch Interlude -- The Official Argument Against the VAT -- Smokescreens and Background Noises -- The Dutch Position Changes -- The Compromise in Brussels -- The Netherlands and the Politics of Fiscal Harmonization -- 5 Italy Postpones the VAT -- Italy Delays -- Domestic Politics and Turnover Tax Reform -- Italy Opens the Way to the VAT -- Italy and the VAT -- 6 Britain Confronts the Community -- The British VAT -- The Sixth VAT Directive -- British Politics and the Community VAT -- 7 Lessons in International Cooperation -- Some Lessons from the VAT Cases -- International Cooperation Among Western Democracies -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

Theory and History in International Relations is an eloquent plea to scholars of global politics to turn away from the "manufacture" of data and return to a systematic study of history as a basic for theory. While the modest use of empiricism will always be important, Puchala rejects the logical positivism of the so-called "scientific revolution" in the field in favor of a more complex, even intuitive, vision of global politics. He addresses the potential uses of history in studying some of the major debates of our time-the Cold War as a struggle between empires, the collision of civilizations