Bridges and boundaries : historians, political scientists, and the study of international relations editors Colin Elman and Miriam Fendius Elman.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction: negotiating international history and politcs / Colin Elman and Miriam Fendius Elman -- Methods -- Explaining events and developing theories: history, pilitical science, and the analysis of international relations / Jack S. Levy -- Toward a new diplomatic history: two and a half cheers for international relations methods / Stephen Pelz -- Social science and history: renchers versus farmers? / Richard Ned Lebow -- Case studies and process tracing in history and political science: similar strokes for different foci / Andrew Bennett and Alexander L. George -- World war II: a different war / Gerhard L. Weinberg -- The twenty years´ crisis, 1919-39: why a concert didn´t arise / Randall L. Schweller -- Postscript: september 1939 / Carole K. Fink -- Hegemony, global reach, and world power: great britain´s long cycle / Edward Ingram -- Martian and venusian perpectives on international relations: britain as system leader in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / William R. Thompson -- Postscript: when did britain decline? / Richrd Rosecrance -- In defense of particular generalizaton: rewriting cold war history, rethinking international relations theory / John Lewis Gaddis -- Sources and methods in cold war history: the need for a new theory-based archival approach / Deborah Welch Larson -- Postscript: historical science and cold war scholarship / William C. Wohlforth -- Reflections on the history and theory of military innovation and diffusion / John A. Lynn -- International history and international politcs: why are they studied differently? / Robert Jervis -- International history: why historians do it differently than political scientists / Paul W. Schroeder.