POLI 449 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cuban Missile Crisis, Corinthian War, Proxeny

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 449
• Professor: Vincent Pouliot

Document Summary

T means therefore, b/c means because, ppl means people, gov"t means government. Lecture 5: climbing up the ladder of abstraction (aka the basic process of any minimally rigorous intellectual reasoning: the process by which you start from deep inductive/deductive research, and we try to move up the ladder of abstraction. If we are to understand how diplomacy is changing now and what is new about diplomacy in the. 20th c. , then we must learn what diplomacy was like in the past. Otherwise we will naturalize the way things are now and make inaccurate inferences: table discussion of the findings for diplomacy in classical greece, classical greece diplomacy. Objective: through this discussion, we must all agree about the 3-4 key features of diplomacy in classical greece: diplomatic personnel created channels of communication, especially when they had inviolability. Proxenos: citizens who live/reside in one city but who were elected by another city.