An Examination of Policies, Authority, Identities, and Change . Several years before publishing Political, in their previous book The Elusive Quest: Theory and International Politics, Ferguson and Mansbach outlined the need for an alternative approach to perceiving and interpreting the relationships between different political regimes, which served as a foundation to this book. (Ferguson and Mansbach, 1988). This fourth collaborative work arose in response to the perceived growing disparity between academic knowledge (theory) and international relations practice (reality), which international relations theory aims to explain. These renowned scholars challenge the framework of the Westphalian model of territorially bounded sovereign nation-states and share the view that the absence of a forceful opponent has led to the continued supremacy of realism as a "grand theory." This situation favored the model of the world based on the dominant European tradition of power politics, with a main emphasis on structural determinants and states as actors, which had many weak points. In the view of both authors, these flaws have had an erosive effect on academic knowledge in international relations. Therefore, both authors share a skeptical view as to how contemporary essential issues in international relations could be presented in the light of a realist view. Their concern focused on practitioners and their worldview shaped by dominant theory: "It is no exaggeration to suggest that ordinary citizens who follow daily news may have a better idea of how the world works really than the vast majority. blinded IR theorists"...... middle of article...... omitting indeed very divergent political systems with different political experiences. (McNeill, 1997). Works Cited Ferguson, YH and Mansbach , R. W. (1996). International Studies Review, Vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 269-274. Published by: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the International Studies Association. , C. (2001). Politics: authority, identities and change (Review).: 21/10/2013

Essay / An Examination of Policies, Authority, Identities, and Change . Several years before publishing Political, in their previous book The Elusive Quest: Theory and International Politics, Ferguson and Mansbach outlined the need for an alternative approach to perceiving and interpreting the relationships between different political regimes, which served as a foundation to this book. (Ferguson and Mansbach, 1988). This fourth collaborative work arose in response to the perceived growing disparity between academic knowledge (theory) and international relations practice (reality), which international relations theory aims to explain. These renowned scholars challenge the framework of the Westphalian model of territorially bounded sovereign nation-states and share the view that the absence of a forceful opponent has led to the continued supremacy of realism as a "grand theory." This situation favored the model of the world based on the dominant European tradition of power politics, with a main emphasis on structural determinants and states as actors, which had many weak points. In the view of both authors, these flaws have had an erosive effect on academic knowledge in international relations. Therefore, both authors share a skeptical view as to how contemporary essential issues in international relations could be presented in the light of a realist view. Their concern focused on practitioners and their worldview shaped by dominant theory: "It is no exaggeration to suggest that ordinary citizens who follow daily news may have a better idea of how the world works really than the vast majority. blinded IR theorists"...... middle of article...... omitting indeed very divergent political systems with different political experiences. (McNeill, 1997). Works Cited Ferguson, YH and Mansbach , R. W. (1996). International Studies Review, Vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 269-274. Published by: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the International Studies Association. , C. (2001). Politics: authority, identities and change (Review).: 21/10/2013

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