What is it about the way back that makes it seem shorter? Most likely it is the familiarity and the increased understanding that we acquire along the way out.
This study began as a circumscribed critique of Alexander Wendt’s discussion of various ontological, epistemological, and methodological dimensions of the everillusive “agent-structure problem,” and of Wendt and Dessler’s claim that structuration theory represents a progressive research program for the study of international relations. We believed that the works of these scholars were limited and weakened by their omission of earlier contributions to the international politics agent-structure problem. These were initially presented in the work of Harold and Margaret Sprout, later revised and popularized in the work of Harvey Starr and his collaborators, especially the publications with Benjamin A.Most. Through the opportunity and willingness framework, Starr had devoted fruitful attention to the agent-structure problem for over a decade prior to the work of Wendt and Dessler.
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