Argumentation in Waltz's "Emerging Structure of International Politics''
This work provides a tool for analyzing argumentation in International Relations texts, but it is incremental as it adapts existing annotation methods to a specific domain.
The authors developed an annotation scheme to analyze argumentative and domain-specific elements in International Relations scholarly articles, applying it to Waltz's 1993 text to reliably gain insights into claim justifications.
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.