Political Science 2231E Study Guide - Final Guide: Cobweb Model, Kenneth Waltz, Liberal Democracy
2 Aug 2016
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Drawn from: nossal" s international relations, goldstein & whitworth"s international. Relations, sens & stoett"s global politics, and peterson & runyan"s global gender. Issues, steans, pettiford, et. al. "s international relations theory, and our textbook. Anne runyan & spike peterson: lenses help us bring some things into focus and can blur others even eliminate them. A set of assumptions, propositions, ideas which organize facts, ideas, events, and explanations. What we can see, understand, and conduct analysis. For some purpose (goal, message for audience, action)- robert cox. All ir is written from some theoretical approach but is ir/politics a science" or an. Claims to tradition: past scholars or authors who give the approach continuity, salience, depth, etc. Nigmendra narain, political science 2231: intro to i. r. , 2013-14: page 1 of 26. Idealists = ought to be world"- institutions, ideas, stopping war. Realists = way it is world"- interests, power, preventing war. Historicism: patterns in history, analysis of decisions of leaders, interpretation and conceptualization (realism)
