Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Mock-Cliffs on R16-19
exclusively for
International Relations
C16:
International
Relations –
An Overview
Kjell Goldmann
Two main approaches to
reviewing a discipline
US dominance
Most remarkable feature
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Vasquez
Much Ado about Nation
States
Negative (III)
Differentiating Positive
from Negative Research
Positive
the purpose is to add positively to existing
knowledge.
The purpose of extra academic c. is to
produce social effects
The purpose of intra academic is to improve
our comprehension of ourselves and our
existence.
Negative – to examine the limitations
of what others take to be knowledge.
Type I – Problem Solving / Positivism
Type III – Post positivism and Critical
Theory
Type I Research
Seem to have dominated the study
of international relations
“peace researchers”
Johan Galtung
QIP
Constructive Citizen
Detached analyst
Systematic skeptic
Mentalism
Reflective
Assumption that preferences and
perceptions are not fixed but are
affected by institutions.
Theory: Conjecture or
discourse?
Theory as a set of answers
A set of explanatory hypotheses which
purport to reveal the rules of the
game of international politics
Theory as a set of questions
Effortsto devise a right way of
studying the phenomena of world
affairs
Game Theoretical
Analysis
Said to address the wrong problem
It is concerned with the implications
of given preferences and perceptions
without asking how preferences and
perceptions are formed (Jervis)
Ann Tickner
Feminist critiques of IR theory may
be a third indication of disagreement
over what theory is.
Mainstream theory actively
prescribes male-oriented concerns
Theory as oppressingly normative
than conjectural and analytic.
Walker
IR theories are interesting mainly as
expressions of the limits of the
contemporary political imagination
Attempts to think otherwise about
political possibilities are constrained
by categories and assumptions that
contemporary political analysis is
encouraged to take for granted. -end-
C17:
International
Relations –Neo-
realism and
Neo-liberalism
David Sanders
Concessional Realism
A simple but flexible set of
propositions about nation-state
behavior in the contemporary
international system.
The product of a conducted “thought
experiment” which attempted to
specify what neo-realism and neo-
liberalism would look like if their
efforts to constitute versions of
rational choice theory were
Traditional Realism
-Waltz
Prisoner’s Dilemma
J. Ann Tickner
C19:
International Relations,
Old and New
Robert O. Keohane
The Alvarez Hypothesis
By Luis and Walter Alvarez
Theory of the demise of the
dinosaurs
A cosmic collision 65 million years
ago threw tremendous quantities of
dust into the air, reducing global
temperature and thus killing the
dinosaurs.
Marple-Dagliesh Method
Based on two characters created by
Agatha Christie and P.D. James
Students of IR would do well to
imitate this detectives by carefully
observing and describing events,
specifying the causal mechanisms
that could have led to these results,
and testing accurate predictions of
complex events.
Cause of the revival of
Realism
Adolf Hitler’s accession to power in
Germany
Subsequent crises and war that
resulted
Realism
A dominant approach
Served as an antidote to ideological
thinking
A source of caution, emphasizing the
principle of avoiding over-extension
by keeping ends aligned with the
means to achieve them.