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Theory and History in International Relations is a plea to scholars of global politics to turn away from the manufacture of data and to return to a systematic study of history as a basis for theory. While the modest use of empiricism is always important, Puchala rejects the logical positivism of the so-called scientific revolution in the field in favour 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. This text should appeal to those older IR scholars who were never comfortable with the...

In Democracy and International Conflict, James Lee Ray defends the idea, so optimistically advanced by diplomats in the wake of the Soviet Union's demise and so hotly debated by international relations scholars, that democratic states do not initiate war against one another and therefore offer an avenue to universal peace. Ray acknowledges that despite persuasive theoretical arguments and empirical evidence in favor of this idea, the democratic peace proposition is susceptible to attack on three points: the statistical rarity of both international wars and democracies; the difficulty in...