Constructing Cause in International Relations
- Submitting institution
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King's College London
- Unit of assessment
- 19 - Politics and International Studies
- Output identifier
- 104606749
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1017/CBO9781107256538
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781107047907
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This is a major single-authored monograph demonstrating sustained research. It is conceptually rigorous and theoretically significant, offering a conceptually novel approach to understanding causality in international relations that has the potential to influence other subfields in the social and political sciences. Drawing on physics and critiquing philosophy of science, Lebow makes the case that cause is an artifact of the human imagination, not a feature of the universe. He explores the implications of cause as a means of organizing inquiry and never more than a rhetorical claim for social science, and international relations in particular.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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