PSC 3315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Kenneth Waltz, Behavioural Sciences, Pseudoscience
22 Feb 2016
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Lecture #11 [2/12] document: man, the state and war by waltz. Statesmanship is how you evaluate problems with someone: you need time to truly evaluate this. Morgenthau"s approach isn"t helpful in evaluating the here, now because it"s so focused on the past. Is there a systematic way to institutionalize this: you can study correlations (ex. Doesn"t require philosophy structural realism is a new way to analyze international politics by studying the structure of international nature. That nature is usually anarchy: concedes that humans are egotistical by also rational. War is always a possibility; states prepare for war by watching how other states prepare internally, their scientific outputs, etc. States are all different but behave uniformly. Wrote part of this in korea: still holds on to parts of morgenthau. Research question and levels of analysis: man (individuals, units (states, structure (of international realm itself) These are the three images of international relations waltz goes into depth by.
