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The Conduct of Inquiry is a tour de force that carefully unpacks the idea of 'inquiry' in International Relations and reconstructs debates surrounding this issue in a way Jackson believes will foster genuine debate and, potentially at least, facilitate progress in the discipline. However, it is not without its problems. In this contribution to the forum, I present three challenges to Jackson's position. Firstly, I challenge the validity of the monism-dualism split that he believes underpins all approaches to the field. Secondly, I take issue with Jackson's account of science and methodology. Thirdly, I briefly highlight some problems with Jackson's account of pluralism and argue that it fails to provide the conditions of possibility for 'engagement' that Jackson is so committed to.
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153310
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087474
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167189
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This article examines change and continuity in the function, role and moral judgement of violence in international relations. In terms of change, the conclusions are mostly pessimistic if the aim is the complete eradication of political violence. The control of violence, on the other hand, and the ability to hold those who employ it to increasing moral and legal standards is perhaps one of the most significant changes in international relations from 1919 to 2019. However, this does not mean that violence has been replaced or even transformed. Violence is constitutive of the political. It is the first and the last word in politics. This is the continuity of violence. Violence, of which war is only the most visceral expression, has not been transformed or replaced, but rather it has been displaced into legal systems, institutional orders and new forms of conflict. Inter-state war may be in decline, but intra-state conflict is rising. To develop this argument, the article argues that change can only be understood as change against a horizon of continuity.
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