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2. Before we begin

3. Before we begin Its been a pleasure having ALL of you in the course
If there is ANY way I can help you in the rest of your time at U of O, please me or come see me during office hours.
Working with students like you is the best part of my job

4. Review for final exam

5. Structure of essay
Your thoughts?

6. Structure of essay: My thoughts
Lots to cover: 2 issue areas, 3 theories, 6 tenets
Cover as many tenets as you can cover well, at least
Ensure you
Cover major points
Compare across theories and across issue areas
Show clear knowledge of theories and application
Keep intro and conclusion short
Use headings

7. My suggested structure
Intro
Focus
Key claims of each of three theories
Security or IPE examples that each theory explain well
Human rights or Environment examples that each theory explain well
Compare ability of each theory to explain each issue area
Repeat for A-G-M-O-D
Compare issues across all tenets
Conclusion

8. Disenfranchised Theory
Realism
Institutionalism
Disenfranchised Theory
Focus – what is being explained?
Actors – who are considered the main actors to watch?
Goals – what are the goals of the main actors?
Means – what means do actors use to achieve their goals?
Organizing Principles – how is the international system organized?
Dynamics – what does the process of international relations look like?

9. Disenfranchised Theory
Realism
Institutionalism
Disenfranchised Theory
Focus – what is being explained?
Conflict
Actors – who are considered the main actors to watch?
States are primary and act as unitary rational actors
Goals – what are the goals of the main actors?
Survival, security, and hence, power
Means – what means do actors use to achieve their goals?
Military force is usable, effective, and fungible
Organizing Principles – how is the international system organized?
Anarchy and self-help
Dynamics – what does the process of international relations look like?
Acquisition and balancing of power

10. Disenfranchised Theory
Realism
Institutionalism
Disenfranchised Theory
Focus – what is being explained?
Conflict
Cooperation
Actors – who are considered the main actors to watch?
States are primary and act as unitary rational actors
Multiple actors (states, MNCs, NGOs); not always unitary or rational
Goals – what are the goals of the main actors?
Survival, security, and hence, power
Econ & social goals as well as security
Means – what means do actors use to achieve their goals?
Military force is usable, effective, and fungible
Asymmetry in interdependence; issue-specific power
Organizing Principles – how is the international system organized?
Anarchy and self-help
Anarchy mitigated by norms, rules, & institutions
Dynamics – what does the process of international relations look like?
Acquisition and balancing of power
Alternation of cooperation & conflict

11. Disenfranchised Theory
Realism
Institutionalism
Disenfranchised Theory
Focus – what is being explained?
Conflict
Cooperation
Conflict between genders, rather than between states
Actors – who are considered the main actors to watch?
States are primary and act as unitary rational actors
Multiple actors (states, MNCs, NGOs); not always unitary or rational
Individuals gendered as masculine and feminine
Goals – what are the goals of the main actors?
Survival, security, and hence, power
Econ & social goals as well as security
Individual security and well-being
Means – what means do actors use to achieve their goals?
Military force is usable, effective, and fungible
Asymmetry in interdependence; issue-specific power
use of gender identities, even by the state, in service of the state
Organizing Principles – how is the international system organized?
Anarchy and self-help
Anarchy mitigated by norms, rules, & institutions
Patriarchy, gendered hierarchical structure
Dynamics – what does the process of international relations look like?
Acquisition and balancing of power
Alternation of cooperation & conflict
Reconstruction & maintenance of gendered hierarchies

12. Applications to different issue areas
Security
IPE
Human rights
Environment

13. Concepts Security Conflict, cooperation, harmony Power Role of states
Goals of states
Means states use
Roles of institutions

14. The future of IR Focus Actors Goals Means Organizing Principle
Dynamics

15. Structure vs. Agency
Structural arguments that I have promoted in the class suggest
There is little free will and far more determinism
That the causes of things are generally outside our control or even our ability to influence them
That people can’t make a difference
This is depressing (unless you think the world is perfect the way it is)
BUT …

16. Individuals (you) can make a difference
Structure vs. agency as theme of course
Structure is the cause of continuity
Agency is the cause of change
Act in small ways that make big changes to structure over time
1,000s of small decisions each year – bias your decisions toward your goals
Individuals can make a difference
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