International Political Theory and Its Critics

... hatching that anti-theoretical movement. They have witnessed intense accumulation of vast statistical data and introduction of quantitative methods since the 1960s. Building upon the extensive empirical testing, researchers concluded that theoretical explanations ... ... conflict initiation in less than one in ten cases. Moreover, theorists repeatedly questioned the very possibility of predicting international relations. One of the founders of the discipline Hans Morgenthau expressed doubts in this regard in his Scientific ...