Author profile: Cecelia Lynch

Cecelia Lynch is a Professor of Political Science and the Director of International Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of ‘Beyond Appeasement: Interpreting Interwar Peace Movements in World Politics,’ and her newest book, ‘Interpreting International Politics,’ is due out from Routledge in December, 2013.

The Fallacy of the Realist-Constructivist Dichotomy: A Rejoinder to Robert Murray

Cecelia Lynch • Aug 19 2013 • Articles

Realism is not dead, but it is as problematic to treat the theory as IR’s “core set of ideas” as it is a fallacy to treat constructivism as a recognizable, distinct, and competing theory.

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