To the Pacific? Alexander Wendt as Explorer
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The book under review here consists largely of articles appearing in various journals between 2000 and 2003 in response to the publication of Alexander Wendt’s Social Theory of International Politics (STIP). Three chapters, however, are new. Two, by Drulak and Sarvary, bring the collection up to Wendt’s 2003 article on the world state (WS). The final chapter is a response by Wendt. His response in terms of STIP is fairly limited: Wendt is reasonably satisfied with what he did. However, the critiques in particular and the exchange are valuable guides to some significant issues in IR theory and in the philosophies of science and of social science. As well, there are some substantial suggestions that would contribute notably to IR theory, whether or not they would be acceptable to Wendt. Wendt’s response goes well beyond a simple reply to his critics, however, instead presenting a far more audacious approach based on a quantum theory of consciousness. Erik Ringmar argued in 1997 that there were two Wendts: the first focused on structurationism and scientific realism as ways of thinking about IR, while the second left scientific realism for constructivism, and applied that to IR theory. Writing before STIP was published, Ringmar was mistaken about the fate of scientific realism in Wendt’s thought, and there are clear elements of agent–structure thinking remaining in STIP and its associated articles (e.g. ‘Anarchy’, ‘Collective Identity Formation’ and WS). Strategic choices made by Wendt in STIP, resulting in his strong emphasis on the state and the international system, mark an apparent shift in his thinking that sets him at odds with the other contributors in this volume. There now seems to be a third Wendt emerging, flagged most clearly in his turn to quantum theory, but also seen in his argument for the state as a person (SP), a theme that his quantum consciousness approach would support. But there are also continuities. These include his adoption of scientific realism, the central role of the state and, possibly, the teleological mode of
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Full frame distilled prediction
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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