POL 2103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Thomas Kuhn, Berlin Wall, Security Studies
1 Dec 2014
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-confucius once said: to learn without thinking is in vain, to think without learning is dangerous. -the best argument about democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter. ---churchill/ we have to elect the best of the best, or the system will be a joke. - in the structure of scientific revolutions, thomas kuhn defines a scientific paradigm as: what is to be observed and scrutinized the kind of questions that are supposed - paradigm: a pattern or model, an exemplar (oed) -pattern: politics at the global level. / the decision of governments concerning their actions toward other governments/ activities of international organizations/ global trade (imf, wb)/ armed conflicts. -scope of international relations: global, regional environmental issues (post- 911 islamic fundamentalism )/ global traffic (goods, services people)/ globalization/ civic, protest movements. -traditionally: ir must answer the question of war and peace/ sub-field of. Political science/ international security studies/ comes from 1. diplomatic history; 2. international law.
