POL 140 Lecture Notes - Statism, The Possession, Security Dilemma
12 Dec 2013
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They"re supposed to give an idea of how the world stays together. Different theories use different lens to see global politics. Facts don"t exist independently of explanatory frameworks. Facts are pieces of information that are thought to correspond to reality and be true, but the way in which they are perceived and judged is influenced by theory. (o"brien and williams, p. 13) Organizing all the objects, issues and events that have been identified as important within the boundaries. (1. Tries to make relationships and institutions work better in a world that is given: ex. Questions the very framework (the world) that problem-solving theory takes a given. May question why we consider north and south states instead of other things: many critical approaches. It"s the first theory to emerge with a name and a structure, and it"s the simplest. Arose as a reaction against idealism in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
