POLSCI 2I03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Comparative Advantage, Democratic Peace Theory, North American Free Trade Agreement

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 2I03
• Professor: Andrew Lui

Document Summary

Distinction between the realism school, between classical realism and neo-realism/ structural realism. The difference is that it further attempts to make ir more scientific, what happens here is in trying to make ir more scientific it tries to make discipline values free. Classical realism is not a moral school, it in fact says a lot about virtues and morals. Waltz s attempt is to make the theory of ir politics, highly ambitious and highly successful. Making the theory of ir politics, does not try to reproduce reality. Whereas the early form of realism said they were describing world as it is, waltz said he is not because theory is not real life. To understand power is to explain the relations of ir. All the people who came before him did not understand the structure of ir. We have to look at the systematic operations of ir, the system is composed of 3 different structures.