Bridges and Boundaries

Historians, Political Scientists, and the

Study of International Relations

Editors
Colin Elman and
Miriam Fendius Elman

BCSIA Studies in International Security

The MIT Press

Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England
 Contents

Acknowledgments IX

Introduction: Negotiating International History and Politics

Colin Elman and Miriam Fendius Elman

Part I Methods 37

Chapter 1 Explaining Events and Developing Theories: 39

History, Political Science, and the Analysis of
International Relations
Jack S. Levy

Chapter 2 Toward a New Diplomatic History: Two and 85

a Half Cheers for International Relations
Methods
Stephen Pelz

Chapter 3 Social Science and History: Ranchers versus 111

Farmers?
Richard Ned Lebow

Chapter 4 Case Studies and Process Tracing in History 137

and Political Science: Similar Strokes for
Different Foci
Andrew Bennett and Alexander L. George
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Part II Cases 167

THE THIRTY YEARS' CRISIS, 1909-39

Chapter 5 World War II: A Different War 169

Gerhard L. Weinberg

Chapter 6 The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-39: Why a 181

Concert Didn't Arise
Randall L. Schweller

Chapter 7 Postscript: September 1939 213

Carole K. Fink

THE RISE AND FALL OF BRITISH HEGEMONY

Chapter 8 Hegemony, Global Reach, and World Power: 223

Great Britain's Long Cycle
Edward Ingram

Chapter 9 Martian and Venusian Perspectives on 253

International Relations: Britain as System
Leader in the Nineteenth and Twentieth
Centuries
William R. Thompson

Chapter 10 Postscript: When Did Britain Decline? 293

Richard Rosecrance

THE COLD WAR

Chapter 11 In Defense of Particular Generalization: 301

Rewriting Cold War History, Rethinking
International Relations Theory
John Lewis Gaddis

Chapter 12 Sources and Methods in Cold War History: 327

The Need for a New Theory-Based Archival
Approach
Deborah Welch Larson
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Chapter 13 Postscript: Historical Science and Cold War 351

Scholarship
William C. Wohlforth

MILITARY REVOLUTIONS A N D THE REVOLUTION IN MILITARY

AFFAIRS

Chapter 14 Reflections on the History and Theory of 359

Military Innovation and Diffusion
John A. Lynn

Part III Conclusions 383

Chapter 15 International History and International 385

Politics: Why Are They Studied Differently?
Robert Jervis

Chapter 16 International History: Why Historians Do It 403

Differently than Political Scientists
Paul W. Schroeder
Contributors 417
Index 421
About the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs 434