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Grand Strategy Analysis: A Proto-Theoretical Approach, Patrick Magee
Grand Strategy Analysis: A Proto-Theoretical Approach, Patrick Magee
Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations
International relations scholarship begins and ends with assumptions—about human nature; about human interaction; about starting points, relative information, and outcomes. Such assumptions are necessary to further the intellectual coherence and development of scholarly work. However, they restrict the applicability of scholarly research to those situations that parallel the work's underlying assumptions.
This work argues the body of international relations scholarship as a whole would benefit from the development of a pre-theory state, absent any assumptions about international relations, from which observers can identify those works of scholarship that are most effective in explaining perceptive states and the strategic decisions taken …