Political Science 2231E Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hedley Bull, Immanuel Kant, Hugo Grotius
11 Dec 2014
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The social (instead of interests) framework as a way of analyzing global politics. 1950s-1980s: e. h. carr, charles manning martin wight, hedley bull, adam watson. Disagreed with realists on some key points -- including cooperation After settling security issue, can then deal with bigger ideals", such as law, justice, peace, freedom. Focus = academic analysis is not just through one process -- it is through philosophy, history and law, and more than just states as actors" or the anarchical state system". Not interested in making everything policy-relevant through data collection, manipulation and hypothesis testing & confirmation (american behaviouralism) Social factors -- we throw our garbage away even though it"s not a necessity of being a student. Approaches to ir need not be dichotomous (oppositional) Power and morality -- there"s questions of power that are incorrectly used, but in order to do that we have to make some moral claims.
