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C1 - Understanding International Relations
This document provides an overview of the key concepts in international relations, including the sub-fields of international security studies and international political economy. It discusses how IR scholars use descriptive and theoretical approaches to understand why international events occur, and outlines three broad theoretical perspectives: conservatism, liberalism, and revolutionary. It also introduces the three levels of analysis in IR: individual, state, and systemic (international).
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C1 - Understanding International Relations
- 1. UNDERSTANDING INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Sub-fields ofIR; Theories; Levels-of-Analysis.
- 2. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS • IRstudies the relationships among the world’s governments. • These relationships are closely connected with other actors, social structures, geographical and historical influences. • IR is multidisciplinary.
- 3. SUB-FIELDS OF IR Internationalsecurity studies International political economy
- 4. THEORIES • What istheory? • IR scholars want to understand why international events occur the way they do. • The answers to why questions can be: Descriptive Theoretical
- 5. THEORIES Three broad theoreticalperspectives: Conservatism Liberalism Revolutionary
- 6. Levels of Analysis •Based on Kenneth Waltz’s Man, the State and War (1959). Individual State Systemic (International)