Argumentation in Waltz’s “Emerging Structure of International Politics”

Wolska, Magdalena; Fröhlich, Bernd; Girgensohn, Katrin; Gholiagha, Sassan; Kiesel, Dora; Neyer, Jürgen; ... ; Stein Benno (2024)

Article / Letter to editor

We present an annotation scheme for argumentative and domain-specific aspects of scholarly articles on the theory of International Relations. At argumentation level we identify Claims and Support/Attack relations. At domain level we model discourse content in terms of Theory and Data-related statements. We annotate Waltz’s 1993 text on structural realism and show that our scheme can be reliably applied by domain experts enables insights on two research questions on justifications of claims.

• annotation
• argumentation
• political discourse

• All authors: Wolska, Magdalena; Fröhlich, Bernd; Girgensohn, Katrin; Gholiagha, Sassan; Kiesel, Dora; Neyer, Jürgen; Riehmann, Patrick; Sienknecht, Mitja; Stein Benno
• Editor(s): Boogaart, Ronny; Garssen, Bart; Jansen, Henrike; Van Leeuwen, Maarten; Pilgram, Roosmaryn; Reuneker, Alex
• Date: 2024
• Journal: Proceedings of the Tenth Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation
• Pages: 969 - 979
• Conference: 10th Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA 2023)
• Date: 2023-07-04 - 2023-07-07
• Location: Leiden, The Netherlands