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What are the issues important for domestic order? 4

What are the issues important for international order? 5

What issues of justice must be addressed to make the world a better place? 6 Human Rights Environment Security Technology Inequality Globalization Population, Health Women, Children, Minorities

Mile’s Law Where you stand depends on where you sit 7

How do we think about International Relations? 8 Paradigms Analytical Frameworks

Levels of Analysis 9 International level is most aggregated States are the principle units of world politics At individual level, decision-making is the focus

Paradigms 1. involve assumptions about the nature or Order of the world, how knowledge is obtained. 2. contain assumptions about what the world SHOULD be or its Justice 10

Problem-solving paradigms concentrate on why the world is the way it is. 11

Critical paradigms concentrate on what the world should be and how to get there. 12

Different types of theory have different aims 13 Explanatory or problem-solving Critical of particular social arrangements or outcomes Concentrates on perceptions, ideas and beliefs

Is objectivity possible? 14

How do we evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the various approaches? 15

Introducing the Two Oldest (Problem- solving) IR Paradigms 16 There is a major debate in IR about how to view the world: Realism Vs. Liberalism

CLASSICAL REALISM Human nature is inherently flawed 17 CLASSICAL LIBERALISM

CLASSICAL REALISM Human nature is inherently flawed 18 Conflict is the normal state of the world CLASSICAL LIBERALISM

Conflict is inevitable in a world of limited resources. 19

CLASSICAL REALISM Human nature is inherently flawed 20 States are the primary actors in the international system Conflict is the normal state of the world CLASSICAL LIBERALISM

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CLASSICAL REALISM Human nature is inherently flawed 22 Conflict is the normal state of the world Human nature may be flawed, but people are inherently good States are the primary actors in the international system CLASSICAL LIBERALISM

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CLASSICAL REALISM Human nature is inherently flawed 24 Human nature may be flawed, but people are inherently good Conflict is not the norm, but an aberration Conflict is the normal state of the world States are the primary actors in the international system CLASSICAL LIBERALISM

CLASSICAL REALISM Human nature is inherently flawed 25 Human nature may be flawed, but people are inherently good Conflict is not the norm, but an aberration NGO’s & other non- state actors play a significant role in the international system Conflict is the normal state of the world States are the primary actors in the international system CLASSICAL LIBERALISM