INR 2001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: World Disarmament Conference, Neoconservatism, Dependency Theory
29 Mar 2017
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Helps policy makers assess issues they face by facilitating their ability to discern patterns and focus on important casual factors. Provides a framework for conceptualizing strategies and policy responses. Facilitates critical assessment so that policy makers reach accurate conclusions about the successes and failures of a policy. Paradigm: dominant way of looking at a particular subject, fundamental assumptions scholars make about the world they are studying. Emerged on the eve of world war 2. Kellog-briand pact: outlawed war as a method for settling interstate conflicts. Drove president nixon"s decision to establish diplomatic relations with. Sought to establish relations based on common strategic interests, countering the power of the soviet union: neorealism (structural realism) Understands human identity, motivation, and behavior as being driven by the environment in which actors are situated. Balances of power form automatically in anarchic environments: limitations of realist thought. Did not account for significant new developments in world politics.
