POL208Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Liberal Democracy, Power Politics, Behaviorism
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Republican liberalism: liberal democracies living in peace with each other. Understanding, judgement, values norms and historical knowledge, theorists inside subject. Universal human rights, one word for all (cosmopolitan element) Established traditions: realism/neorealism, liberalism/neoliberalism, international society, international political economy (ipe) First major debate between utopian liberalism and realism. Second debate on method, between traditional approaches and behaviorism. Emerging fourth debate is between established traditions and post- positivist alternatives. First major debate was won by realists. During the cold war realism became the dominant way of thinking about international relations not only among scholars but also among politicians, diplomats, and ordinary people". Morgenthau"s summary of realism became the standard introduction to ir. The former try to understand a complicated social world of human affairs and values of fundamental to it, such as order, freedom, and justice. The latter approach, behaviorism, finds no place for morality or ethics in international theory.
