POLI 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Railways Act 1921
17 May 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
POLI 243 International Politics of Economic Relations
Course Objectives:
- To introduce theoretical approaches to the study of international politics.
- To illustrate differences between theoretical approaches, by applying theories to
historical cases.
- To understand the differences between politics and Economics.
The course is divided into 3 parts:
1. Introduction of different approaches to the explanation of foreign economic policy.
2. A brief intro to two of the substantive issue areas in international political economy.
3. Applications of competing theories to specific cases.
Course Contact Info: [email protected], 5143983099.
Course requirements:
-Two midterms (25% each), old midterms are posted on My course.
- Participation in conferences (10%)
- Formal final exam
Why are you here?
-To learn to think theoretically about international politics
What do we ea by Theory?
- Relate cause and effect
- Probabilistic statement
- Composed of independent and dependent variables
Tasks for a theory:
-Description
-Prediction
-Prescription
-Provide normative goals
The quality of a Theory:
-Accuracy
-Parsimony (or leverage)
-Generalizability
Theories begi with assuptios…
-Theories are built on assumptions
- Assumptions shape the qualities of each theory
-An assumption is something we take to be true
-We assume something to be true, because we know it is not always true.
-How do we test an assumption?
Grouping theories by their shared assumptions:
-By paradigm:
- Paradigm can mean an example
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