{"id":1343,"date":"2024-03-31T12:20:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T11:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2024-03-31T12:20:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T11:20:12","slug":"the-study-of-international-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/03\/the-study-of-international-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"The Study of International Relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a summary of my notes from 12th October 2018 in <strong>Major Approaches to the Study of International Relations<\/strong> at Lancaster University.<\/p>\n<p>International Relations &#8211; IR &#8211; is the name of both the practice and the academic discipline.\u00a0 It started after The Great War an an attempt to use reasoned debate to develop common interests.\u00a0 The original IR scholars were liberal internationalists.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it is about relations between actors, sometimes the processes.\u00a0 It is <em>transdisciplinary<\/em>.\u00a0 It is <em>eclectic<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The theories help, but can always be criticised in their coverage or assumptions.\u00a0 The theories let you see better, but also distort part of reality.\u00a0 All the theories have merits, all have weaknesses.\u00a0 One needs to be able to criticise them all.\u00a0 It is a <em>contested discipline<\/em>. The theories are <em>commensurable<\/em>: they allow one to see the same world differently and explain different aspects.<\/p>\n<p>Questions posed by IR:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Are humans <em>egoist<\/em> (devoted to their own interests and advancement) or <em>perfectible<\/em> (capable of being made perfect, improvable)?<\/li>\n<li>Is the international system <em>anarchical<\/em> or an <em>international society<\/em>?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are no political opinions in IR.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a summary of my notes from 12th October 2018 in Major Approaches to the Study of International Relations at Lancaster University. International Relations &#8211; IR &#8211; is the name of both the practice and the academic discipline.\u00a0 It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/03\/the-study-of-international-relations\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320,390,356],"tags":[321,396,358],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diplomacy","category-international-relations","category-international-relations-theory","tag-diplomacy","tag-international-relations","tag-international-relations-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1344,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions\/1344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}