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First Great Debate between two great wars
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Realists and idealists
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Great Debate between proper methodology
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Behaviorlists and traditionalists
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Great Debate between ontology and epistemology
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Critical thoughts and positivists
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Ways and means by which we come to know something about the world
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Epistemology
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Refers to how much each of us views the world- how we see and understand essence of things around us
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Ontology
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The view that the only grounds for making truth claims is through direct observation of the world using our senses
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Empiricism
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Unity of the natural and social sciences- we can study the natural world
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Positivism
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Level of analysis
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Individual, group, state, and international
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Four Main images
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Realism, liberalism, economic structuralism, english school
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Interpretive understandings
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Constructivism, critical theory, postmodernism, and feminism
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Major Assumptions of Realism (4)
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(1) In't system = anarachy
(2) state- unitary actors (3) states are rational actors (4) security is the most important issue for states |
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Morgenthay six principles of realism
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(1) politics is governbed by laws
(2) interests are defined by power (3) interests depends on cultural context (4) tension between moral and politics (5) political realism refuses morals (6) interests as power separates in't politics |
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A method to determining rational choice in competitive situation
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Game theory
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Structural attribute of the international system. It is organizing the principal of IR
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Anarchy
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States must rely on themselves for their survival
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Self-help
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