GVPT 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Power Politics
22 Apr 2019
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Independent state: clear-cut and bordered territory, permanent population, under jurisdiction of supreme government that is seperate from foreign governments, a sovereign state. Five basic social values that states are expected to uphold. Most people take the basic values for granted. The state system is a historical institution fashioned by people. Ir takes a major interest in the ways in which states do or do not ensure those values. The relationship between theory and policy in international relations, pg: 23-34. Employ rules of thumb (simple decision rules acquired through experience rather than via systematic study) Typologies: classifies phenomena based on sets of specific traits. Can rely on empirical laws: observed correspondence between two or more phenomena that systematic inquiry has shown to be reliable. Can use theories: identifies recurring relations between two or more phenomena and explains why that relationship obtain.
