Comments on "scientific forecasts in international relations"

The initial disclaimers at the outset of the article that the authors seek neither to forecast nor to make a contribution to the "corpus of knowledge" in this area leave one with a sense of uncertainty about the context in which the issues raised must be viewed. It would constitute the ess...

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Main Author: Choucri, Nazli
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: © The International Studies Association 2022
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2307/2600277
https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/141506
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Summary:The initial disclaimers at the outset of the article that the authors seek neither to forecast nor to make a contribution to the "corpus of knowledge" in this area leave one with a sense of uncertainty about the context in which the issues raised must be viewed. It would constitute the essence of unfair practice to regard the article in any context other than that intended by the authors. The following observations are, therefore, of a more general nature by way of clarifying some of the issues raised in that article. These comments are presented in the order in which they are discussed by the authors.