INTS 1700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Power Transition Theory, Fungibility, Revolutionary Wave
3 Feb 2017
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Week i: introduction to the course and overview. January 6, 2014: introduction and overview of ir perspectives. Level of analysis: begin to tell us a part of the cause of an event/issue/problem: global (system) All players in the world and how they interact. Big part of domestic activity, so difficult to make a distinction: domestic (state) Go(cid:448)"t types/regi(cid:373)e ((cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)ist (cid:374)ot goi(cid:374)g to i(cid:374)tera(cid:272)t (cid:449)ell (cid:449)ith democracy, etc. ) Power transition theory: when there is transition between different powers, likelihood for war. Hegemon stability theory: one state so powerful it stabilizes the rest because smaller states rely on powerful state to stop issues. Regime, economy, culture, lobbyist, firms, civil society: will all effect how they decide to do foreign policy. Ignored often because difficult to understand one single person. Everyone thinks differently, so difficult to categorize. Assume people act in certain ways in certain situations.
