POLI 243 Lecture Notes - Democratic Peace Theory, Austria-Hungary
23 Apr 2013
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What can we learn from the past: why look at canada and the national policy or in 1911 or increasing reciprocity, refining our theories, and why these things happen, illuminate some of the causal connections. Better handle similar kinds of issues in the future: conditions will be similar in the future. Accuracy: does it give good description of what is going on, does it give us insight. How widely can you apply this theory. You can create theories that are very specific to certain events that can be useless for anywhere else (canada 1911) specifc to. Malaysia (intricate parts of theory) specific to just one country. Not that useful in application for the future. The challenge is that we want theories that are good at all three. Prescription of some past event, theory for the future. One crucial piece of information start to make prediction: somewhat vague. Structural realism- agents of power systemic outcomes: very generalizable.
