Political Science 2231E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Environmentalism, Correspondence Theory Of Truth, Postpositivism
16 Dec 2017
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Also has its limitations (what is being said; what is being understood: claims to tradition: past scholars or authors who give the approach continuity, salience, depth, etc. [realism: behaviour(al)ism: collecting observable data, codifying, measuring and correlating data for patterns to be turned into laws" of international behaviours [neorealism, positivism generally agreed upon as approach [correspondence theory of knowledge] What do theories in ir tell us about (mainly): Structures: processes, ideas, etc. which are bigger than actors. If not, it is a holistic theory (every level is interconnected and inseparable: what is the level" at which a theory is focused on, how does it assess interaction between these levels. There are two types of theories in ir (drawing on robert cox): dominant: postivist, rationalist, problem-solving theory, challengers: post-positivist, reflexivist, interpretivist, critical theory. Issue of power among theories -- some are more "powerful" than others.
