POL SCI 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Democratic Peace Theory, Decision-Making, Fokker E.Ii
22 Apr 2016
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Constructuvism - take the ppl in account states. Ir/global trends - do not predict the future - predict possible outcomes. 9/11 doesnt significantly the economy - war. Less trust internionality affects businesses (realists) How does it apply, hows it relevant: ex. Causation vs correlation a. i) a. ii) a. iii) a. iv) a. v) Correlated is the pattern in which two objects move together because one affects the other one. Correlation example: the more democratic countries, the less wars. Causation example: democratic peace theory causes no wars. Decision making relate events that are similar to current events in order to make a decision. Example: an example of an analogy is when decision makings are trying to decide whether north korea is good or bad. North korea is an authoritarian country just as the soviet union, therefore they decide north korea is bad. Relevant: it might be wrong because they might have used the wrong example.
