POL208Y1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Brinkmanship, Non-Interventionism, 1997 Asian Financial Crisis
12 Dec 2012
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Part 1: definitions: theory: 3 parts: description, explanation and prediction. Can be useful if you can falsified- modify (change 1 or more variables) it or it is just a belief. A theory should include casual mechanisms to avoid dangers of false correlation. Induction- one piece of data leads to the next problem: what is the relevant data to collect. Deduction- the transition from data to theory requires creative imagination. Reading: week 1: the theory of ir- illustrates how certain known knowledge justified using reasoning: role of models: every model by definition omits certain dimensions of reality, every model choses what to pick and what to omit. Judges what matters most, through experiment in which each level of analysis and its impact is tested. Week 1: world politics: the menu of life - dropping the atomic bomb- american officials finally agreed to use the bomb as an atomic diplomacy to impress the soviet union and encourages joining.
