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In the Shadow of Power: States and Strategies in International Politics

In the Shadow of Power: States and Strategies in International Politics Book Reviews tant, it does not address the question of how a nuclear bomb could have been built from scratch in time to contribute to the termination of the war against Japan without the aggressive practices of the MED—or whether the bomb should have been created and used at all. ✣ ✣ ✣ Robert Powell, In the Shadow of Power: States and Strategies in International Politics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. 310 pp. $55.00 (hardcover), $19.95 (softcover). Reviewed by Colin Elman, Arizona State University The international relations subªeld, like the rest of political science, remains bitterly divided over the utility of formal theory. This was evident in the recent acrimonious exchange published in International Security and reprinted in Michael E. Brown et al., eds., Rational Choice and Security Studies: Stephen Walt and His Critics (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000). Although the debate usually takes the form of a dialogue between competing standpoints, proponents often are really addressing the partisans of their own perspective. Robert Powell’s In the Shadow of Power is a welcome attempt to make the modeling enterprise accessible and understandable to nonpractitioners. Along the way it makes a concise and coherent case for why modeling can http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Cold War Studies MIT Press

In the Shadow of Power: States and Strategies in International Politics

Elman, Colin
Journal of Cold War Studies , Volume 3 (1) – Jan 1, 2001
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MIT Press
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© 2001 President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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1520-3972
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1531-3298
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10.1162/jcws.2001.3.1.132
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Book Reviews tant, it does not address the question of how a nuclear bomb could have been built from scratch in time to contribute to the termination of the war against Japan without the aggressive practices of the MED—or whether the bomb should have been created and used at all. ✣ ✣ ✣ Robert Powell, In the Shadow of Power: States and Strategies in International Politics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. 310 pp. $55.00 (hardcover), $19.95 (softcover). Reviewed by Colin Elman, Arizona State University The international relations subªeld, like the rest of political science, remains bitterly divided over the utility of formal theory. This was evident in the recent acrimonious exchange published in International Security and reprinted in Michael E. Brown et al., eds., Rational Choice and Security Studies: Stephen Walt and His Critics (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000). Although the debate usually takes the form of a dialogue between competing standpoints, proponents often are really addressing the partisans of their own perspective. Robert Powell’s In the Shadow of Power is a welcome attempt to make the modeling enterprise accessible and understandable to nonpractitioners. Along the way it makes a concise and coherent case for why modeling can

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Published: Jan 1, 2001

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