POL 1025 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Security Dilemma, Unintended Consequences, Imperial Units
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Why bother with theory: because we cannot escape it a. Implicit theories shape what we see and what we recommend: because theories are powerful, people believe in, and on, theories- even when those theories are wrong, ex. Munich (1938), the deterrence model and us policy during the cold war c: dominant theory during cold war: when faced with aggression, respond with. Three approaches to theory: theories as gladiators, theories as lenses, bring something into sharp relief and miss others, help us isolate certain aspects c. Levels of analysis: theory as means of critiques and of envisioning different worlds, these people are activists. International systems: definitions, types, implications: what is a system? , emergent properties: more than the sum of its parts, two factors. Implications: unintended consequences, hard to true chains of cause and effect. Illustrations: double-hulled oil timbers, security dilemma b. i.
