Keyword

agent-structure problem

Description: A theoretical problem in social science concerning how human agency and social structures shape and constrain one another.

Primary topic: International Relations and Foreign Policy (38%)

OpenAlex ID: keywords/agent-structure-problem

The agent-structure problem in international relations theory

1987 · Alexander E. Wendt · International Organization · 1,896

What's at stake in the agent-structure debate?

1989 · David Dessler · International Organization · 679

Quantum Mind and Social Science

2015 · Alexander Wendt · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 526

Agents, Structures and International Relations

2006 · Colin Wight · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 449

Agents, Structures and International Relations: Politics as Ontology

2006 · Colin Wight · 391

Aporia:

1997 · ROXANNE LYNN DOTY · European Journal of International Relations · 228

Quantum Mind and Social Science: Unifying Physical and Social Ontology

2015 · Alexander Wendt · The Knowledge Bank (The Ohio State University) · 202

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Intelligent Compassion

2012 · Catia Cecilia Confortini · Oxford University Press eBooks · 129

They Shoot Dead Horses Don't They?

1999 · COLIN WIGHT · European Journal of International Relations · 129

Beware of gurus: structure and action In International relations

1991 · Martin Hollis, Steve Smith · Review of International Studies · 119

“Things of Networks”: Situating ANT in International Relations

2013 · Daniel H. Nexon, Vincent Pouliot · International Political Sociology · 103

Revolutionary Collective Action and the Agent-Structure Problem

1992 · Jeffrey Berejikian · American Political Science Review · 97

Agency, Structure and International Politics: From Ontology to Empirical Inquiry

1997 · Gil Friedman, Harvey Starr · 55

Levels of analysis vs. agents and structures: part III

1992 · Alexander Wendt · Review of International Studies · 52

The Agent-Structure Problem and Institutional Racism

2003 · Colin Wight · Political Studies · 51

Politische Führung als strategischer Faktor

2007 · Manuela Glaab · Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft · 47

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Foreign Policy Decision-Making

2002 · Valerie M. Hudson · Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks · 30

Hegemony and international relations

2017 · Andreas Antoniades · International Politics · 17

International System, not International Structure: Against the Agent-Structure Problematique in IR

2014 · S. Tang · The Chinese Journal of International Politics · 17

13. Social constructivism

2022 · Michael Barnett · Oxford University Press eBooks · 14

9. Social constructivism

2016 · Michael Barnett · Oxford University Press eBooks · 13

12. Social constructivism

2019 · Michael Barnett · Oxford University Press eBooks · 9

How (not) to talk about technology

2019 · Matthias Leese, Marijn Hoijtink · Routledge eBooks · 9

Agency, Structure and International Politics

2002 · Gil Friedman, Harvey Starr · Routledge eBooks · 9

Worlds of our remembering

2011 · Kuniyuki Nishimura · Cooperation and Conflict · 8

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Citation count: 5,317