POL208Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Greenpeace, Data Science, Agnosticism

• School: UTM
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL208Y5
• Professor: Spyridon Kotsovilis

Document Summary

Institutions, as mechanisms for actors (most often states) to ensure cooperation leads to desired outcomes. International system still anarchic; actors: states international regimes(agreed upon norms) can facilitate agreements by (even by selfish) actors. Institutions: mechanisms for actors (most often states) to ensure that joint activity (i. e. cooperation) leads to desired outcomes. Complex interdependence: multiple (cid:272)ha(cid:374)(cid:374)els a(cid:374)d li(cid:374)ks (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:374)e(cid:272)t so(cid:272)iet(cid:455)(cid:859)s (cid:373)ultiple a(cid:272)tors (cid:271)elo(cid:449) the state le(cid:448)el a(cid:374)d sideways critique, when security issues arise, other goals secondary (economy, hr, environmental) ; difficult to identify causal forces. When security issues arise, other goals become secondary (e. g. post-9/11 era; case of. Example: can green peace explain everything in the system?) Humans are perfectible; war never an appropriate way to solve disputes correct laws and institutions can guide behaviour. A teleological (goal-oriented) approach: the telos (end goal) being international peace. Critique: has failed empirically, especially due to lack of trust between actors, non-enforcement of rules, no punishment for violators of agreements.