PSCI283 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Morton Kaplan, Hedley Bull, Hermeneutics
16 Dec 2019
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What is global political economy: central focus is the relationship between public and private power in the allocation of scarce resources (power determines outcome) Interested in the problem of cooperation: diverse theoretical and methodological approaches, emerged in the 1970s in response to changes. Ontology: the study of the nature of being, eg. Epistemology: the study of knowledge and justified belief. Methodology: the procedure or set of procedures used to study subject matter. Failure of the league of nations to keep peace. Realists more cynical, emphasize self interest of countries. Building generalizations and theory based on observation of systems. Third debate: hardest to characterize, some see it as a debate between realism, liberalism, and radicalism (clash of paradigms, others see it as positivists (the successors to the behaviourists) vs. post- positivists or reflectivists. First person to come up with ipe. 1970 published pivotal piece, international economics and international.
