Return of the Luddites

Niou and Ordeshook offer a commentary on Stephen Walt's "Rigor or Rigor Mortis? Rational Choice and Security Studies." The reason for Walt's redirected focus is that the study of international relations and security is a subfield of political science that has long accepted the ra...

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Published inInternational security Vol. 24; no. 2; pp. 84 - 96
Main Authors Emerson M.S. Niou, Ordeshook, Peter C.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published One Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1209, USA MIT Press 01.10.1999
The MIT Press
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Subjects
Accountability
Analysis
Economic theory
Empiricism
Formal Methods, Formal Complaints: Debating the Role of Rational Choice in Security Studies
Formalism (Philosophy)
Game theory
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Logical theorems
Luddism
Mathematical theorems
Methods
Modeling
Modelling
National security
Political science
Political scientists
Rational choice
Rational choice theory
SCIENCE
Scientific research
SECURITY
Security studies
United States
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Summary:Niou and Ordeshook offer a commentary on Stephen Walt's "Rigor or Rigor Mortis? Rational Choice and Security Studies." The reason for Walt's redirected focus is that the study of international relations and security is a subfield of political science that has long accepted the rationalist premise of self-interested action and depended on the strategic imperatives of game theory.
Bibliography:Fall, 1999
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ISSN:0162-2889
1531-4804
DOI:10.1162/016228899560167