POLSCI 2I03 Lecture 4: Lecture 4.docx
25 Sep 2013
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Constructivism: realism is supposed to describe reality, but as mentioned it doesn t do that. Liberalism is based in liberal theory, liberal political theory and liberal economic theory. Maja zehfuss: despite the unmistakable surge of constructivism, it remains difficult to identify its key claims uncontroversially. History: neo-liberal institutionalism and neo- realism, both theories have been the two most prominent theories of ir, through cold war. They messed up with a change up in ir that is the end of the cold war. Many of the theorists says that not predicting the cold war is not the fault, but what is the real fault is that it didn t think about the possibility of the end of the cold war. Waltz said the most perfect system in the world is a bipolar system- two sides. But all of a sudden the soviet union begins to demise, the berlin wall falls and germans start hugging each other.
