A Pragmatic Perspective on Problems and Mechanisms in the Study of World Politics” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC, Sep 01, 2005 . 2009-05-25 APA Citation: Sil, R. and Katzenstein, P. J. , 2005-09-01 “What is Analytic Eclecticism and Why Do We Need It? A Pragmatic Perspective on Problems and Mechanisms in the Study of World Politics” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC Online . 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p41957_index.html Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Analytic eclecticism refers to approaches to research that consciously address and selectively recombine theoretical and substantive eleme