A New Liberalism Rationalism

POL105Lecture 102.11.98

Unfinished business from Lecture 9

1. Review (see lecture 9 notes –

1. Private goods – rival & excludable

1. Public goods -- non-rival & non-excludable

1. Common Property Goods

– rival & non-excludable

1. Coordination Goods -- non-rival & excludable

1. Collective Action Problems

1. Free-rider problems – public goods

1. Common property problems

1. Externalities

1. Solving Collective Action Problems

1. Entrepreneurs & Hegemons

1. International Organizations & Institutions

1. Bargaining – mutual interest

1. Repeated Interaction

– costs of not cooperating rise over time

1. Overview of dominant IR theories

1. Show overhead from Knutsen p. 258

1. Key concepts for each paradigm

1. Realism

1. Power

1. nation-state

1. security

1. Rationalism – Liberalism

1. issue areas & non-fungible power

1. nation-state plus other actors

1. international cooperation & coordination

1. Radicalism – Revolutionism

1. economic power

1. class / center-periphery

1. inequality & exploitation

1. Summary of Modern Perspectives of

International Relations

Post-Modernism/ Post-Structuralism/

Post-Revolutionism

1. 1980s & 1990s

1. Difficulties with contemporary history

1. The Information Age

1. post-industrial society

1. shift from a manufacturing to a service economy

1. computer software, accounting, lawyers

1. McDonalds & Burger King

1. Information

–computers

–telecommunications

–the web

1. Globalization & Globalism

1. A Global Village -- international travel

1. Telecommunications & the Web

1. Growth of International trade & finance

focus on international finance

opening of capital flow restrictions

stock market internationalization

international banking

1. Consequences of Globalism

1. The techno-optimists -- Liberals

1. The techno-pessimists – Luddites & Radicals

1. Technological neutrality

1. Post-structural / Post-modern Perspectives in

World Politics

1. Many varieties of post-modernism – general overview

1. Nietzsche

1. Skepticism about human reason & morality

1. No universal truths

1. world views -- good & bad social contexts

1. role of power in shaping what is good & bad

1. Wittengenstein

rules & language (discourse analysis)

action & structure are mutually constituted in the practices of a society (feedback)

1. Quine

1. analytic/synthetic distinction

x  y

bachelor  unmarried man

ungkar  ugift mann

1. Habermas

communicative action – coordination of actions not to achieve desired outcomes, but through acts of reaching an understanding.

Reaching an understanding (verstandigung) (forståelse) =

reaching an agreement (einigung)(enighet)

Importance of speech and action in reaching an agreement -- communication

1. Foucault

relativism – insanity – what is insane?

Focus on power

The Order of Things

1. Derrida

Antonyms

opposites

• scientific / non-scientific
• scientific / historical
• scientific / philosophical
• scientific / literary

defining what is not

there is nothing but the text

textual analysis -- deconstruction

start here 9.november.1998

1. Archaeology of Knowledge

1. Foucault

– focus on power, institutions impose power

1. Knutsen

-- excavate a site of knowledge

1. Genealogy

1. Genealogy

1. history is genealogy – history is a product of where we have been before – events beget events

1. genealogy provides an understanding of historical causation

1. Der Derian

1. genealogy of diplomacy

1. an understanding of alienation and estrangement (entfremden & entäusserung)

(fremedgjørelse & beslagleggelse??)

1. De-construction / semiotics

1. Derrida

-- reverse the hierarchy and undo pairing

1. Ashley

-- deconstructing Waltz

1. Constructivism

1. Relativism vs. Empiricism

1. Relativism

1. Empiricism

1. Paradigmatic ambiguity

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