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The Edwards' Report and the International Relations profession

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2009

Michael Nicholson
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The Economic and Social Research Council recently published a Report commissioned from a committee chaired by Professor Edwards, a psychiatrist, so that the Council, and the social science community in general, might know what was good and bad in British social sciences, and where the promising future research opportunities lie over the next decade. Boldly called ‘Horizons and Opportunities in the Social Sciences’, the Report condensed the wisdom of social scientists, both British and foreign, and concludes with a broadly but not uncritically favourable picture of the British scene.

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Review of International Studies , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , April 1988 , pp. 149 - 152
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Copyright © British International Studies Association 1988

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References

1. Economic and Social Research Council, ‘Horizons and Opportunities in the Social Sciences’ 1987Google Scholar, referred to as the ‘Edwards' Report’.

2. Two examples are Huth, P. and Russett, B., ‘What Makes Deterrence Work’? World Politics, 36 (1984), pp. 496–526CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Petersen, W. J., ‘Deterrence and Compellence: A Critical Assessment of Conventional Wisdom’, International Studies Quarterly, 20 (1986), pp. 269–294.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3. Anderson, Paul and Thorson, Stuart, ‘An Artificial Intelligence Based Simulation of Foreign Policy Decision Making Analysis’, Behavioral Science (04 1982), pp. 176–93.Google Scholar

4. Wight, Martin, ‘Why is there no International Theory?’ in Butterfield, Herbert and Wight, Martin (eds), Diplomatic Investigations: Essays in the Theory of International Politics (London, 1966).Google Scholar