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INR 2002 Paradigms Notes
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- INR 2002
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- Florida Atlantic University
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1-10-2024I. International Relations Theory
A. All politics is global
1. Economy
2. Environment
3. Human rights
4. Physical security
B. International relations- suggests a focus on relations among nation states as key
actors
1. more narrow understanding of how the world works, how countries
interact with each other
C. World Politics- In contrast, implies the casting on a broader net, to include the
host of nonstate actors
1. more broad term, looks at other actors in the way the world works,
look at a wider range of issues)
a) (education literacy, human rights, environment)
D. A paradigm - a way of thinking about and approaching an area of scientific or
scholarly inquiry that is widely accepted within a particular discipline (worldview,
Lens)
1. Realist
2. Liberal
3. Constructivist
4. Feminist
5. Neo-Marxism
E. The academic study of how the world works
1. The discipline of international relations emerges after WWI
a) 2 big questions
(1) Why do we have war
(2) How can we have peace
2. When the discipline of international relations—---
a) Idealist principles
F. Realist scholars believe war is inevitable
1. The realist worldview is the dominant Paradigm
a) Liberalism is an offshoot of idealism
G. Thomas hobbes
1. Had a negative view of human nature
2. Thought that the state of nature was war
H. Constructivism
1. Newest world view
2. Emerges after the end of the cold war (1990’s)
3. There's more to understand on how the world works than what liberals
and Realist talk about
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