POL108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Aust, Stephen D. Krasner, Reductionism
22 Aug 2018
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Lecture plan: what"s theory good for, classical realism, structural realism, liberal international theory. Lecture 2: marxism/ world systems theory, feminist & other critiques. Don"t need a theory to explain it. People may argue that it makes con ict less likely (need to come up with abstract explanation to explain it: premised on the belief that any one event re ects larger pattern of relations. Us shouldn"t of got involved in iraq war. Realist might say that aust. should have participated nonetheless in order to maintain alliance and security. 4. international politics the choices made by states are uncertain, contingent, and consequential. Hans j. morgenthau - politics among nations (1948) seminal statement. 1. politics is governed by objective laws which have their roots in human. 4. universal moral principles do not guide state behaviour, but must be filtered through the concrete circumstances of time and place. 5. political realism refuses to identify the moral aspirations of a particular.
