POL2103- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 145 pages long!)

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 2103
• Professor: Kevin Mc Millan

Document Summary

Complex interdependence: other actors important, realism: the state is the only important actor, liberalism: there are a variety of different actors are very important. Assumptions: cohen accepts these from neo realism, neo- realism liberalism also holds some of these, 1. Tates = (cid:862)ratio(cid:374)al(cid:863) a(cid:272)tor: when states decide what they want to do, they do it on the basis of a cost benefit calculation- almost mathematical in its form, 5. States try to maximise gains through cooperation: try to get the most profit for themselves, 6. History: 3(cid:1004) (cid:455)ers ago, did(cid:374)"t e(cid:454)ist, now: major rival to nr and nl, origi(cid:374)s: (cid:862)(cid:272)riti(cid:272)al ir theor(cid:455)(cid:863) (cid:894)(cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1012)(cid:1004)s(cid:895, critique of epistemological and ontological assumptions (r/nr and. Ontological assumptions f nr and nl (not contrusctivism: individualism, rationalism, materialism. Keoha(cid:374)e"s a(cid:374)swer to challe(cid:374)ge: institutions, help states cooperate in conditions of anarchy, hard to create, easier to maintain, once created: sunk cost, provide functions for states. Neo-liberal: international institutions encourage iteration (repition, 1.