POL SCI 41A Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Comparative Advantage, Hans Morgenthau, Offensive Realism
30 Mar 2018
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Traditionally, the ir as the study of the interaction between nations. Intro to the competing theories of ir for perspectives and approaches. Critical understanding of basic theories, with an emphasis on assessing their strengths, weakness, and limitations. Structure of the course: foundation approaches, why theory, historical development, variants of realism, variants of liberalism. Participating: turn questions before dis email him actively joining the dis. Debate: effort in group evidence quality and quality of speech. Critical views: the importance of clarifying assumptions behind theories- since the experts sumed and simplified the theories, these are assumptions, too often accepted without adequate skepticism, questioning. Policymakers accept, once they made the assumptions, they stop to reflect and think about the assumptions anymore. Whenever there are "objective" views, that will be a red line: can determine what research question get asked; narrowing of the research agenda, proving a theories wrong or right is extremely hard in social science.
