Book Review: Charles Reynolds,Theory and Explanation in International Politics. (London : Martin Robertson,1973. £5-25.)

Peter Winch , The Idea of a Social Science and its Relation to Philosophy ( London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1958).

Papers by these writers are most conveniently reproduced in Knorr and Rosenau (eds.), Contending Approaches to International Politics, (Princeton University Press, 1969).

Chicago: Phoenix Books, 1964, especially the first 76 pages.

G.R. Elton , The Practice of History (London: Fontana, 1969), p. 88.

E.H. Carr , What is History? (London: Penguin , 1966).

Particularly in Conjectures and Refutations (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1963), pp. 24-5, 346.