POL SCI 139 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Washington Consensus
5 Oct 2016
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Theory and system in understanding middle east international politics. Attuned to the nuance"s of the region"s politics, and sought to use theoretical concepts in international relations to understand the politics. Highlight insights on international relations to middle east politics. Suggest questions that need to be addressed > systemic understanding of regional international politics. Its ordering principles, the character of its units, and the distribution of capabilities among those units. Domestic: extensive changes in arab society and the original weakness of post- colonial arab states > international outcomes. Noble"s systemic understanding of middle east international politics. Waltz"s general outline of system definition (3 elements) Noble addresses problem of the organizing principle of the system and the nature of the units making it up. Arabism since the 1970s: settled on western notions of sovereignty, conflict and revision declined. Role of ideology in in the systemic approach. The idea that the state and international settings are completely distinct is debatable.
