POL208Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Jessica Mathews, Bill Chappell, Stephen Walt
Document Summary
Kristenson : discipline admonished: ir fragmentation & stocktaking. Stocktakers always identify theoretical fragmentation from their era. Cacophic, lacking consensus, without a clear dialogue. No overall encompassing debates anymore to move discipline forward. Hierarchy of subfields and unproductively divided lacks unity. Andreas & greenhill: politics of number (cid:862)e(cid:454)perts(cid:863) gar(cid:374)er (cid:271)li(cid:374)d trust that goes u(cid:374)(cid:272)halle(cid:374)ged illicit transnational drug and human trafficking low visibility crimes often manipulated. Politicized use of numbers exaggerations, inaccuracies and murky. Anchoring effect even if the numbers are wrong, people tend to fixate on them confirmation bias find more evidence to support it the need to make ir a science. Transnational: cross boundary encounters with a difference. Science = falsifiable hypothesis and generalized theories. General specific works most of the time but has exceptions: ex. Scotch whiskey reference technical/practical knowledge vs. epistemic. More tha(cid:374) just state ratio(cid:374)alit(cid:455) & i(cid:374)t"l a(cid:374)ar(cid:272)h(cid:455) Must focus on application of material powers and capabilities. All 3 theories work in conjunction to explain world politics.