PSCI 2601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Classical Liberalism, Inductive Reasoning, Deductive Reasoning

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PSCI 2601
• Professor: Mark Pearcey

Document Summary

Debate because the two came to diff conclusions but others say less a debate and actually a synthesis, the two coming together. History and philosophy are the corenerstone of ir theory until mid-20th c: realism: mogentheua, liberalism: . Human nature is an assumption: adopted positivist approach (us scholars advance) I(cid:373)pa(cid:272)t of (cid:858)re(cid:448)olutio(cid:374)(cid:859) is lo(cid:374)g-term and significant (really influential) Neo-realism most dominant approach to ir during cold war (location in. Us and such a superpower so able to influence academic thought) Still challenged despite influence: many europeans disagreed, creates academic divide between euro and us, research in diff direction, division between positivists and post-positivists. Many people questioning whether can do sci in social world. Neo-realist waltz interviews about feminism (nothing against it but it(cid:859)s (cid:374)ot theory, a(cid:272)(cid:272)ording to neo-realism not objective) Structure of anarchy determines state behaviour (means diff configurations of power in anarchy) Unipolar, bipolar, multipolar (how many great powers) States assume that others are also self-interested rational actors.