Matt’s Reviews > Theory of International Politics > Status Update
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Chapter 5 develops the difference between unit level understanding and systems level understanding. It covers the 3 main considerations required for the analysis of political structures: The ordering principles, the character of the units, and the distribution of capabilities among the units.
"Apples and oranges" statements are only legitimate when there is no shared category among the two objects, which is rare
— Apr 01, 2019 11:14AM
"Apples and oranges" statements are only legitimate when there is no shared category among the two objects, which is rare
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Chapter 1 covered the baseline distinctions between theory and law. Chapters 2, 3, and 4 covered how international-political systems can not be explained reductively. In chapter 3 we found how often "systemic" approaches confuse systems-level causes with unit-level causes (Critiques of Hoffman's descriptions of reality, Rosecrance's conflation of a model with a framework). Some similarities between approaches remain
— Mar 25, 2019 05:55AM
