Lecture 1 - Introduction

Question 1

What is ontology?

Answer 1

“the nature of the world” how things are meant to be

Question 2

What is epistemolgy?

Answer 2

The study of knowing, what is possible to know

Question 3

What is science according to Carr (1939)?

Answer 3

Science as the analysis of ‘existing facts’ by
realists, preceded and informed by the ‘wishdreams’ of utopians

Question 4

What is a impersonal and engaged view of IR called?

Answer 4

Technical

Question 5

What is a detached and impersonal view of IR called?

Answer 5

Epistemic

Question 6

What is a detached and value-perspectival view of IR called?

Answer 6

Aesthetic

Question 7

What is a engaged and value-perspectival view of IR called?

Answer 7

Normative

Question 8

What is a epistemic view of IR?

Answer 8

Only knowong the history of theory or a case

Question 9

What is a technical view of IR?

Answer 9

The actual practical knowledge, diplomacy, practice based, engaged, but non-valuable

Question 10

What is a aesthetic view of IR?

Answer 10

Using flowerly language to tell something, without wanting to change it.

Question 11

What is a normative view of IR?

Answer 11

Trying to effect change.

e.g. Talking about alcohol= changing drinking age

Question 12

What is the perception of IR according by Carr (1939)

Answer 12

IR is a serious, critical, hard and ruthless analysis of “real” interational problems, preceded by aspiration.

Only for solving real problems and not the world you want it to be

Question 13

What is the perception of IR according by Jackson (2015)

Answer 13

The ‘study of cross-boundary encounters with
difference’, the subversion (ondermijning) and maintenance of those boundaries, and transaction within and across those boundaries

transaction in the sence of everything, not only financial

Question 14

What is the perception of IR according by Baylis, Smith and Owens (2020)

Answer 14

A highly interdisciplinary, traditionally very Eurocentric and exclusionary, field of study that examines the political and power relations that characterise the contemporary world

in short: more then only states

Question 15

What is the relationship of theory and IR according by Carr (1939)

Answer 15

For Utopians, theory is a norm to which political
practice should conform. For realists, it is a
codification of political practice. They are dependent factors for each other

Question 16

What is the relationship of theory and IR according by Baylis, Smith and Owens (2020)

Answer 16

Non-optional simplifying devices that allow “you to decide which historical or contemporary facts
matters more than others” when trying to
understand the world.

A theory helps a IR-scholar/pundit to guide.
A precise theory for a precise problem.

Question 17

What is the relationship of theory and IR according by Aydın-Düzgit, Rumelili and
Topal (2022)

Answer 17

A ‘critical means (cruciaal middel) to denaturalize the political effects of the usage of history”