POLI 319 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Collective Security, Human Security, Middle Power
13 May 2018
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POLI 342
WED - 01.31.2018
Went through review of last week, mainly the relationship
between Canada and US, and how power plays a part in
that. Also functional power/niche diplomacy (see review
slide on MyCourses)
IDEAS AND FOREIGN POLICY
OUTCOMES
IDEAS IN LITERATURE
Tannenwald: Ideas have a life cycle — origin,
transmission by political actors/words/discourses,
reception & acceptance, implementation via policies
•we will see that some ideas are transmitted but not
received
Goldstein & Keohane
•ideas create beliefs
•affect outcomes
•forms foreign policy orientation, move in the direction of
our beliefs
•they become embedded in political institutions (like the
UN & belief in international stability/unity)
Tannenwald, two types of beliefs
1. Causal Beliefs
•cognitive understanding of the world
•guidelines to achieve objectives
•embraced epistemic communities, those who transmit
and study these ideas + the elites who have the
loudest voice/influence
•change more rapidly/frequently
2. Principled Beliefs
•reflect normative ideas: what is right and wrong? This
is the specific criteria
•values and attitudes held by diff groups and
individuals
•take longer to change because they have more
profound implications of foreign policy making — they
have a bigger impact on all of society, thinking and
culture (same-sex marriage, climate change action,
etc.)
HOW WW1 SHAPED CFP — VIDEO
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