International relations theory has for a long been a source of quarrel over methodological positions. The debate 'history versus science' epitomised the state of the IR discipline in defining its identity alongside other human sciences. However, the adoption of positivistic method by IR scholars paved the way to explaining political occurrences through the principle of empirical observation, testing and verification. Nonetheless, against this monistic view of science, this research argues for a scientific realist stance, wherein unobservable generative mechanisms and causal structures of the...