Prepare to discuss this in class in our next meeting. Also, think about emailing it to me to share with the class prior to our first session. I plan to have a rather extensive website for us to use and to develop as we go along. The idea is to think about a concept then try to apply it to something interesting to you dealing with the subject matter of international relations, then critique the application. We all live in systems.
Systems determine our average behavior and the variation in that behavior.
We must have profound knowledge about those systems, that is, sound theory about how they are created, maintained and changed, or designed and redesigned. To change the quality of our own lives and those of others around us, we must be ready, willing, and able to work constantly and forever for such change. They represent surveys of the field of international relations studies. I suggest that you purchase three of the five to start off your readings in this field. My view on these texts at present is as follows.