World Politics, international politics, International Relations by https://padlet.com/eaholtmaat/a0dr9o5izkzdnmyt World Politics since 1945 en-us 2021-09-25 14:25:42 UTC 2025-10-10 23:02:04 UTC hello@padlet.com Why university? eaholtmaat https://padlet.com/eaholtmaat/a0dr9o5izkzdnmyt/wish/1767407031 What is so specific about what you learn at the university? ]]> 2021-09-25 14:29:04 UTC https://padlet.com/eaholtmaat/a0dr9o5izkzdnmyt/wish/1767407031 What do you hope to learn? eaholtmaat https://padlet.com/eaholtmaat/a0dr9o5izkzdnmyt/wish/1767409834 2021-09-25 14:31:38 UTC https://padlet.com/eaholtmaat/a0dr9o5izkzdnmyt/wish/1767409834 Fun fact + Why are you here? eaholtmaat https://padlet.com/eaholtmaat/a0dr9o5izkzdnmyt/wish/1767415394 2021-09-25 14:35:31 UTC https://padlet.com/eaholtmaat/a0dr9o5izkzdnmyt/wish/1767415394 What is politics? eaholtmaat https://padlet.com/eaholtmaat/a0dr9o5izkzdnmyt/wish/1767421497 2021-09-25 14:40:32 UTC https://padlet.com/eaholtmaat/a0dr9o5izkzdnmyt/wish/1767421497 Scientific Dictionary eaholtmaat https://padlet.com/eaholtmaat/a0dr9o5izkzdnmyt/wish/1767425462 Ontology
Epistemology
Level-of-analysis
Theory
Anarchy
Sovereignty
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]]> 2021-09-25 14:43:43 UTC https://padlet.com/eaholtmaat/a0dr9o5izkzdnmyt/wish/1767425462 Why world politics since 1945? eaholtmaat https://padlet.com/eaholtmaat/a0dr9o5izkzdnmyt/wish/1767431252 Global IR - Amitav Acharya: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rethinking-Power-Institutions-Ideas-Politics/dp/0415706742]]> 2021-09-25 14:48:20 UTC https://padlet.com/eaholtmaat/a0dr9o5izkzdnmyt/wish/1767431252 How are knowledge and power related? eaholtmaat https://padlet.com/eaholtmaat/a0dr9o5izkzdnmyt/wish/1767438925 2021-09-25 14:54:55 UTC https://padlet.com/eaholtmaat/a0dr9o5izkzdnmyt/wish/1767438925 What are examples of interstate relationships? eaholtmaat https://padlet.com/eaholtmaat/a0dr9o5izkzdnmyt/wish/1767447938 2021-09-25 15:02:46 UTC https://padlet.com/eaholtmaat/a0dr9o5izkzdnmyt/wish/1767447938 Studying current affairs vs studying International Relations. What is the difference? eaholtmaat https://padlet.com/eaholtmaat/a0dr9o5izkzdnmyt/wish/1767450137 2021-09-25 15:04:35 UTC https://padlet.com/eaholtmaat/a0dr9o5izkzdnmyt/wish/1767450137 Do you have any questions about: eaholtmaat https://padlet.com/eaholtmaat/a0dr9o5izkzdnmyt/wish/1770437326 i.) King’s/DPE;
 ii.) the module;
iii.) this week’s material ]]> 2021-09-27 08:24:51 UTC https://padlet.com/eaholtmaat/a0dr9o5izkzdnmyt/wish/1770437326 What do you think are the important issues in world politics? eaholtmaat https://padlet.com/eaholtmaat/a0dr9o5izkzdnmyt/wish/1770439796 Discuss in small groups.]]> 2021-09-27 08:26:10 UTC https://padlet.com/eaholtmaat/a0dr9o5izkzdnmyt/wish/1770439796 What is world politics? eaholtmaat https://padlet.com/eaholtmaat/a0dr9o5izkzdnmyt/wish/1770442174 Hedley Bull formulates this question as: 

“what is our subject matter?”

He provides the following initial answer on p. 252

“Students of International Relations, then, focus their attention upon contemporary interstate politics”

Can you think of any problems with this definition?]]> 2021-09-27 08:27:21 UTC https://padlet.com/eaholtmaat/a0dr9o5izkzdnmyt/wish/1770442174 Studying world politics is interdisciplinary eaholtmaat https://padlet.com/eaholtmaat/a0dr9o5izkzdnmyt/wish/1770444472
Bull argues that there is no agreed upon:

 i.) method (way of studying the subject-matter);
 ii.) epistemology (way of verifying the claims we make about our subject-matter);
 iii.) or level-of-analysis 

In your mind is this a good or a bad thing? 


]]> 2021-09-27 08:28:34 UTC https://padlet.com/eaholtmaat/a0dr9o5izkzdnmyt/wish/1770444472 Did you find anything interesting or challenging about the Bilgin reading? eaholtmaat https://padlet.com/eaholtmaat/a0dr9o5izkzdnmyt/wish/1770453405 To avoid “self-referential history of ideas”, she asks us to look at “how ideas have been produced, their multiple origins and their uses in different parts of the world”? 

Bilgin uses the human rights example. Can you think of any others? 
]]> 2021-09-27 08:32:55 UTC https://padlet.com/eaholtmaat/a0dr9o5izkzdnmyt/wish/1770453405 Can you study world politics without being political? eaholtmaat https://padlet.com/eaholtmaat/a0dr9o5izkzdnmyt/wish/1770457402 2021-09-27 08:34:58 UTC https://padlet.com/eaholtmaat/a0dr9o5izkzdnmyt/wish/1770457402 Learning the Discipline eaholtmaat https://padlet.com/eaholtmaat/a0dr9o5izkzdnmyt/wish/1770465740 Is knowledge itself political?
Who is it serving? 
Who's perspective?
What makes sense to you?

]]> 2021-09-27 08:39:01 UTC https://padlet.com/eaholtmaat/a0dr9o5izkzdnmyt/wish/1770465740 'Presentations' eaholtmaat https://padlet.com/eaholtmaat/a0dr9o5izkzdnmyt/wish/1771815788 - Free format
- What was of interest in the readings this week?
- Any links with what is going on in the world?
- 2-3 Minutes
- Doodle sign-up]]> 2021-09-27 16:45:25 UTC https://padlet.com/eaholtmaat/a0dr9o5izkzdnmyt/wish/1771815788 Hedley Bull eaholtmaat https://padlet.com/eaholtmaat/a0dr9o5izkzdnmyt/wish/1773772782 - Nation vs state
- International relations vs international politics
- Should we focus on improvement?
- Is there international improvement?
- Go beyond state actors? (world politics, global governance)
- Historical vs systematic
- Classical vs scientific
- Country study vs 'international system'
- Commitment vs detachment

'There is no such thing as value free inquiry in International Relations nor in any other social science'

Questioning the moral and political framework (some things appear neutral)]]> 2021-09-28 07:28:53 UTC https://padlet.com/eaholtmaat/a0dr9o5izkzdnmyt/wish/1773772782