POLD09H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Falsifiability, Thesis Statement, Neoliberalism
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Back then it was matters of war which stat goes to war and which states don"t today are world is very messy. The story: part 1: theory (first half) realism, liberalism and neoliberalism, marxism. Part 2: (second half) we start topics trade, terrorism, climate change. Objectives: to learn the foundations of international relations theory to apply ir theory to understand and interpret real-world cases to learn to read academic articles and write academic papers. What is ir theory is: theory is a set of assumptions about how the world works, which simplifies the noise and allows us to see broader patterns. Theory is used to: explain existing phenomena predict future patterns and trends. A good theory is measured by its: parsimony (few assumptions with a wide explanatory point of view) accuracy (both is very wide spread)
