POLS 2940 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Gender Mainstreaming, International Relations, Nuclear Proliferation

• School: York University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2940
• Professor: Prof. Monika Thakur

Document Summary

Fp decision-making: bureaucratic politics; cognitive and leadership approaches: canadian foreign policy. Foreign policy analysis (fpa: a branch/sub-discipline of international relations (ir) Ir and fpa: which theory or set of theories helps to understand fp in particular, realism/neo-realism: distribution of power; focus on security, bipolarity, nuclear proliferation, relative power capabilities. Liberalism/neo-liberalism: interdependence and cooperation; domestic actors as agents for foreign policy; two-level game (putnam: marxism/neo-marxism: neo-gramscian ipe (hegemonic economic structures) Feminist: role of women in decision-making, human rights and women"s rights, gender mainstreaming: constructivism: construction of state identity, interests, goals, actions; role of international norms; david campbell (post-structuralist), writing security. Fp decision-making: key actors, bounded rationality: futility of trying to maximize" one"s values; preferable to accept the first outcome which approximates to one"s preferences. Policy makers may act rationally, but only within the context of their simplified subjective representations of reality (simon, 1957) Muddling through", disjointed incrementalism" (lindbolm: decision-making: bureaucratic politics (allison); cognition, psychological, leadership factors (neack)