caa a22 4500 388051442 CHVBK 20180307125054.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1998 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1162/002081898550743 doi S0020818398440566 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1162/002081898550743 Milner Helen V. Rationalizing Politics: The Emerging Synthesis of International, American, and Comparative Politics [Elektronische Daten] [Helen V. Milner] International relations has often been treated as a separate discipline distinct from the other major fields in political science, namely American and comparative politics. A main reason for this distinction has been the claim that politics in the international system is radically different from politics domestically. The degree of divergence between international relations (IR) and the rest of political science has waxed and waned over the years; however, in the past decade it seems to have lessened. This process has occurred mainly in the "rationalist research paradigm,” and there it has both substantive and methodological components. Scholars in this paradigm have increasingly appreciated that politics in the international realm is not so different from that internal to states, and vice versa. This rationalist institutionalist research agenda thus challenges two of the main assumptions in IR theory. Moreover, scholars across the three fields now tend to employ the same methods. The last decade has seen increasing cross-fertilization of the fields around the importance of institutional analysis. Such analysis implies a particular concern with the mechanisms of collective choice in situations of strategic interaction. Some of the new tools in American and comparative politics allow the complex, strategic interactions among domestic and international agents to be understood in a more systematic and cumulative way. Copyright © The IO Foundation 1998 International Organization Cambridge University Press 52/4(1998), 759-786 0020-8183 52:4<759 1998 52 INO https://doi.org/10.1162/002081898550743 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1162/002081898550743 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Milner Helen V. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Organization Cambridge University Press 52/4(1998), 759-786 0020-8183 52:4<759 1998 52 INO CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge