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Second (methodological) debate: behaviouralism vs. traditionalism

Behaviourists: more rigorous IR through scientific inquiry & a science of IR = claims of methodological supremacy.
Traditionalists: defended more interpretive historical approach; international society, law, philosophy, history that could not be reduced to measurable variables.

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Second (methodological) debate: behaviouralism vs. traditionalism
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