POLI 244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Neoclassical Realism, Structural Level, Execution Unit
12 Mar 2016
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Egypt and syria prepared for war with israel. Jordan"s king hussein formed an alliance with bigger, stronger egypt. June 5, 1967: israel struck first, defeating egypt, syria, and jordan. Outcome of 1967 arab-israeli war israel captured and occupied a lot of territory, the sinai peninsula. Morgenthau realism elaboration on realism now is a discipline of many theories rose tries to gather these theories. Classical realists (morgenthau) would say yes: peer over the shoulder of the decision maker, can gain insight. Neo-realists (waltz) also posit a grand theory based on the global state system: a refinement of realism, one grand theory can describe the entire international system and display predictability in certain circumstances. Independent variables are casual factors that produce an outcome. Dependent variables are the outcomes that we seek to explain (i. e, war: dependent on the factor that caused it.
