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1、AnAmericanSocialScience:InternationalRelationsAuthor(s):StanleyHoffmannReviewedwork(s):Source:Daedalus,Vol.106,No.3,DiscoveriesandInterpretations:StudiesinContemporaryScholarship,VolumeI(Summer,1977),pp.41-60Publishedby:TheMITPressonbehalfofAmericanAcad
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4、ort@jstor.org.TheMITPressandAmericanAcademyofArts&SciencesarecollaboratingwithJSTORtodigitize,preserveandextendaccesstoDaedalus.http://www.jstor.orgSTANLEYHOFFMANNAnAmericanSocialScience:InternationalRelationsInthepastthirtyyears,internationalrelationsh
5、asasadevelopedlargelyautonomouspartofpoliticalscience.Eventhoughithassharedmanyofpoliti?calscience'svicissitudes?battlesvariousamongorientations,theories,andmethods?italsohasastoryofitsown.Whatfollowsisanattemptatneitherabalancesheetnoraasetofreflection
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