[POLB80H3] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (13 pages long)
5 Oct 2016
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Comes in when issues start to cross borders. Matters for all of us because it is something that we go through over our time on the earth. It is deeply intimate and personal; a responsibility that comes with this connection. Theories are mechanisms that are used to find patterns and relationships. To learn the foundations of international relations theory. To apply ir theory to understand and interpret real - world cases. To read academic articles and write academic papers. Theory is; a set of assumptions about how the world works, which simplifies the noise and allows us to see broader patterns. Explain existing phenomena: predict future patterns and trends. A good theory is measure by it"s: parsimony; being stingy, accuracy. A paradigm is a family of theories which share a common set of assumptions. Most ir theories (realism, liberalism etc) are actually paradigms , which contain different theories. The research question (the puzzle around why the paper was written?)
