POLI 346 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Neoclassical Realism, Offensive Realism, Railways Act 1921
16 Dec 2017
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Theories of how one state makes a foreign policy decision. Covers both economic and security policy: also how they move together, how they don"t. Can bring in systemic, domestic, and/or lower level factors. But only interested in explaining one state"s decision (not about changes in the system"s characteristics) Is there a specific style of american foreign policy? o. Theme 3: how the us differs from other states. E. g. differences in political institutions - parties, channels for public input, formal and informal decision making arenas. Beginning with emergence of us as world power (around 1900) Then examine us influence in ww1, interwar period, fluctuations in us grand strategy. Again changes during cold war, eventually brings about collapse of soviet union. Changes during post-cold war era, esp. in response to 9/11. Theme 5: linking events to development of ir theory. Theories used to explain significant events: 1900-ww1 - beginning of ir as a discipline. Bad policy, unexplained events generate new thinking.
