This essay draws on historical sociology, in particular on historical institutionalism, to critique the micro, macro, and meso-level explanations of contemporary international relations theory. Focusing on institutional development, change, and disintegration; it proposes a conjectural,...

This paper demonstrates that an estimated, structural, small open-economy model of the Canadian economy cannot account for the substantial influence of foreign-sourced disturbances identified in numerous reduced-form studies. The benchmark model assumes uncorrelated shocks across countries and...