Reviving the Via Media – A New Approach to the Fourth Debate

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Brief Overview

This paper addresses the key question of the Fourth Debate in IR by arguing, through defense of Conventional Constructivism against the claims of interpretivism, that a normative (social) ontology does not necessitate a critical epistemology.

Author

• Robin Brooks Ishler, Touro College