Preface
Introduction : Progress, Consensus and Cumulation in IR Scholarship?
[Ewan Harrison, Annette Freyberg-Inan, and Patrick James]
Part I: Judging Progress in the Study of International Relations
Chapter 1 - The Bias of ‘Science’: On the Intellectual Appeal of Neopositivism
[Patrick Thaddeus Jackson]
Chapter 2 - Maps, Models and Theories: A Scientific Realist Approach to Validity
[Colin Wight]
Chapter 3 - Substance, Form and Content: Scholarly Communities, Institutions and the Nature of IR
[Torbjørn L. Knutsen]
Chapter 4 - The Role of Theory for Knowledge Creation in IR: A Sociable Pluralist Discussion
[Annette Freyberg-Inan]
Part II: Evaluating Progress in Democratic Peace Research – An Illustrative Case Study
Chapter 5 - Bounded Pluralism and Explanatory Progress in International Relations: What We Can Learn from the Democratic Peace Debate?
[Fred Chernoff]
Chapter 6 - Systemism, Analytic Eclecticism and the Democratic Peace
[Jarrod Hayes and Patrick James]
Chapter 7 - Rethinking the Democratic Peace: Competing Accounts of ‘Scientific Progress’ in IR
[Ewan Harrison]
Chapter 8 - The Normative Within the Explanatory: A Critical Take at the Democratic Peace Literature
[Piki Ish-Shalom]
Chapter 9 - The Closer You Look, the Less You See: Knowledge Cumulation in IR
[Laura Sjoberg]
Conclusion - Different Standards for Discovery and Confirmation
[Annette Freyberg-Inan, Ewan Harrison, and Patrick James]