POL312Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Foreign Policy Analysis
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Essay due feb 23rd, and its 50%, so get ready already, priority for this one. Major questions you need to address, key decisions, faces of decisions, key policies made about an issue. Reminder competing schools of thought are not the ones we discussed, but only specific to our case. You have to read about what theorists say about your case. You build the school of thought from the scratch. Essays are very much framed to case specific, inductive. At the end you can say about 3 main theories and see how each contributed to the case. No use of judgement, like its was bad or whatsoever. But you can discuss leadership"s goals, interests, distinctive national interests. Executive branch, society, leaders, realistic array of choices, pms. Better would be to choose pm, specific era, learn the global and internal context, problems left to deal with from previous pms, problems to address in the future and present.