4Close readings
Dissertational patterns versus Lego science
The academic standards of expression concomitant with a Lego conceptualisation of science are partially inimical to a deep-seated French convention for rhetorical argument structuring. This genre is the dissertation. This chapter argues that the dissertation is one possible reason for the divergent trajectories of French and transnational-American IR research practice in the last 60 years in terms of their relative convergence towards the Lego ideal-type argumentative structure.
As such, the chapter continues where the longitudinal survey of Chapter 3 left off. The argument has two major sections. Apart from this introduction and a final conclusion, the first major part contains a theoretical ...
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