Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Sovereign State, Arab Spring, Scientific Method
6 May 2015
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The limits of seeing international relations as current events . 2 or 3 sides are usually given and the listener can determine what the truth is; details are usually lacking because the stories are usually only 2-3 minutes; 50% of canadians get their information from tv. Stories are getting much shorter in magazines, such as time magazine. Make stories shorter because of printing costs; increase font size to make it more reader friendly; people have shorter attention spans (marshall mcluhan) Even if stories were longer and people had longer attention spans, there are many explanations for complex issues; no journalist can cover the complexity of an issue; can"t capture everything because there are so many layers. Since leaders aren"t reliable, you should rely on theory. An explanation of an event (e. g. why was the eu created?) or a pattern of related events (e. g. why are most wars today civil wars?)
