Milja Kurki is one of the prominent theorists in IR tradition who follows Scientific Realist philosophy of science. In this book, causal analysis in Social Sciences, IR in particular was taken into consideration. For this, the book is divided into three main parts that are ‘the Humean philosophy of causation and its legacies, Rethinking the concept of cause and Reconfiguring causal analysis of world politics’ and eight sub-chapters