POL208Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Photorealism, Antipositivism, Postpositivism
8 Apr 2016
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September 23rd lecture notes is ir science . What are good questions in ir: knowing the why and how from the what, where, when. Interstate: crossing national borders, crossing cultural borders (regionalism, cross boundary encounters with difference (jackson, 2015) Rise of behavioralism: objective, measurable, quantified, statistical: a movement borrowed from us politics o scientize ir, so called positivism the post-positivists borrowing from other fields: econ (rationalists) and soc (constructivists) Causality: x factor causes y factor: necessary and sufficient conditions, necessary: you need x to have y, but having x itself will not cause y, sufficient: x leads to y. Agents have choices to make based on their constitution (based on your. Example: canadian policy in the war on terror. Agency: we are acting on the world (opposite from structure) Structural argument: canada take another policy on the global war on terror (we are a middle power) We are agents within a structure but we are agents who created structures.
