Me, too. Not least because at the end of the day
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John T. Fishel
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PS I did like the A - F, 1 - 6 scale. Used well it was a good shorthand but it never was scientific and F 6 was most often misinterpreted as meaning bad info instead of unknown quality of both source and info.
you could see how many F6s were laying about in comparison to all others that came in -- kept one sorta honest... ;)
May be true but it could be a political minefield and
if you address it, be sure you give adequate emphasis to domestic political considerations which are always a driver at the national level.
I have no problem with a 75% solution -- a lot of the Political masters do not, in my observation, subscribe to that. We have, in the west, become far more risk averse as societies today in comparison to say, 1940 and that can have an impact on your thesis.
Good luck with the paper.
Essentially a non-problem
AP--
As you know, Realism assumes that the state can/must be treated as if it were a single, individual actor who is rationally pursuing his interests. Granted, there are many flaws in that assumption as Entropy and Selil have pointed out, but it works well most of the time. (I use 80% as my ballpark estimate.) So, as long as you demonstrate that you are aware of the possible pitfalls with an explantory note or in the text itself, you should be fine. As a professor of political science at U of MD told my wife when she was a PhD candidate, "Done is better than perfect."
Drive on!:cool:
Cheers
JohnT