introduction

Question 1

How did Barbé define the understanding of IR

Answer 1

“We have different understanding that can apprehend in different ways, that reduce or simplify the understanding and be controversial.”

Question 2

What are the two dimensions of IR?

Answer 2

• Scientific considerations of such relations
• Sector of the social reality:
- Human relation with interaction character.

Question 3

Object of Study of IR according to Truyol

Answer 3

“Relations between individuals and human collectivities that in their genesis and efficiency does not diminishes in the heart of a differentiated community considered as a whole that fundamentally (but not exclusively) is the political community or the State that transcend theirs limits”

Question 4

When did IR formally become a field of study ?

Answer 4

1919

Question 5

IR as a discipline : criteria

Answer 5

• Actors implicated: IR as different of Interstate Relations
• Interstate Relations: traditional perspective that is a matter of diplomacy and military
• IR: Individuals as collective that acts in the international arena.

Question 6

IR as a discipline : Localization

Answer 6

• Borders
• Transnationality: borders as crossing point, not only a division.
• Getting over the difference between the internal framework and the international framework.

Question 7

IR as a discipline : Interaction

Answer 7

• Culture
• Economics
• Political exchange

Question 8

What are the Different approaches (Berbé, 1995)

Answer 8

• International Politics: interstates relations
• World politics: more historical perspective
• International Relations: theoretical studies
• Foreign relations: foreign policy.

Question 9

Some elements of the scientific discussion

Answer 9

• Social Science x Natural Science

Question 10

Philosophical Terminology : Ontology

Answer 10

– Theory of the being: what is the world made of? What objects do we study?

Question 11

Philosophical Terminology : Epismology

Answer 11

– Theory of knowledge: How do we come to have the knowledge of the world?

Question 12

Philosophical Terminology : Methodology

Answer 12

Theory of the methods: What do we use to unearth data and evidence?

Question 13

How social science has evolved according to Kurki and Wight

Answer 13

“Science, we argue, is not based on a dogmatic insistence on the certainty of its claims but, rest on a commitment to constant critique”

Question 14

Define Positivism –

Answer 14

makes scientific perspective for a large part of history.

• Shaped how we theorize, what is a valid question and what is a valid form of evidence and knowledge.

Question 15

Why has positivism been discredited?

Answer 15

not all the studies from this perspective are invalid