Brother Can You Spare a Paradigm? (Or Was Anybody Ever a Realist?)

• Published in: International security Vol. 25; no. 1; pp. 165 - 193
• Main Authors: Feaver, Peter D., Hellman, Gunther, Schweller, Randall L., Taliaferro, Jeffery W., Wohlforth, William C., Lergo, Jeffery W., Moravcsik, Andrew
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: One Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1209, USA MIT Press 01-07-2000; The MIT Press
• Subjects: Correspondence; Democracy; Empiricism; First order theories; Foreign policy; International politics; International Relations; International relations theory; Liberalism; Mathematical realism; Philosophical realism; Political debate; Political Science Theories; Theoretical Problems
• ISSN: 0162-2889; 1531-4804
• DOI: 10.1162/016228800560426

In a series of letters to the editor, Peter D. Feaver, Gunther Hellman, Randall L. Schweller, Jeffery W. Taliaferro, & William C. Wohlforth offer insights regarding realism theory as articulated in "Is Anybody Still a Realist?" by Jeffrey W. Legro & Andrew Moravcsik (International Security 24:2, Fall 1999, pp. 5-55). In the final letter, Legro & Moravcsik expand upon their arguments & reply to their critics. A. Funderburg