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Introduction; Part I. Classical Realism and Quantitative InternationalPolitics: 1. The role of paradigms in scientific enquiry: a conceptualframework and a set of principles for paradigm evaluation; 2. The role of therealist paradigm in the development of a scientific study of internationalrelations; 3. Research design: defining and operationalizing the realistparadigm; 4. Theory construction as a paradigm-directed activity; 5. Datamaking as a paradigm-directed activity; 6. Research as a paradigm-directedactivity; 7. Evaluation: the adequacy of the realist paradigm; 8. Theory andresearch in the 1970s: the emerging anomalies; Part II. Neorealism andNeotraditionalism: International Relations Theory at the Millennium: 9.Retrospective: neorealism and the power of power politics; 10. The promiseand potential pitfalls of post-modernism: the need for theory reappraisal;11. The realist paradigm as a degenerating research program:neotraditionalism and Waltz's balancing proposition; 12. Mearsheimer'smultipolar myths and the false promise of realist policy prescriptions: theempirical inaccuracy of the realist paradigm; 13. Challenging the relevanceand explanatory power of the realist paradigm: the debate on the end of theCold War; 14. Conclusion: The continuing inadequacy of the realist paradigm.