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1. Introduction

verfasst von : David Bell Mislan, Philip Streich

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Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This chapter serves as an introduction to the book. It defines the idea of a deviant case and then provides an epistemological rationale for studying deviant cases in international relations. The last section provides an overview of the entire volume.

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Fußnoten
1
We regard foisting to be synonymous with teaching.
 
2
See for example, Milton Gordon, “Sociological Law and the Deviant Case,” Sociometry 10 (1947), 257.
 
3
Among many other things, Robert K. Merton is famous for his theory of deviance (also known as strain theory). Deviance theory, which explains why some people commit crimes, should not be confused with deviant case analysis. But he also conducted deviant case analysis in his work (such as Merton 1947).
 
4
Though it must be said that there are no actual laws in the social sciences as there are in the natural sciences. Regarding IR, Jack Levy (1989, 88) states that the Democratic Peace is “the closest thing we have to an empirical law in the study of international relations.”
 
5
In contemporary IR scholarship, examples of deviant case studies that deliberately attempt to improve theory are too few. For a good example, see Timothy Crawford, “Wedge Strategy, Balancing, and the Deviant Case of Spain, 1940–41,” Security Studies 17, no. 1 (2008): 1–38.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Introduction
verfasst von
David Bell Mislan
Philip Streich
Copyright-Jahr
2019
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75556-4_1

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