POL208Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Expected Utility Hypothesis, Game Theory, Microeconomics
8 Apr 2016
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October 7th lecture notes social and micro approaches. Liberalism and realism different? cooperation absolute vs relative gains. Liberalists tend to think it can happen and realists don"t. Absolute gain how everybody is after some gain. Relative gain if i gain, then you lose . Power versus preferences: liberal preferences are uniform. Realists high politics, liberals low politics. Why we look at realism and liberalism together systemic and structural theories state-centric historically important for the field of ir: philosophy, policy. Isms are a set of ideas with many arguments built into it see it as a starting point. Why doesn"t canada invade u. s? they share same cultural and traditional values. Not a whole lot, but they are compatible! Unlike realism and liberalism, they are largely methodological claims: do not make grand, sweeping claims about what"s important to study in ir. Not invested in grand claims about conflict or cooperation, as our other isms are.
