arsh ib history notes

PLIR midterm study organizer

Class 1 : Introduction**(1/13)**

• Allison-Thucydides’s trap-2012
• In class notes

Topic 2 :  Intro to IR Theory

• Mearsheimer - Tragedy of Great Power Politics → realism
• In class notes (1/15)

• Kang & Ma (pg 3-39) → constructivism
• In class notes (1/20)

Topic 3 :  Before Colonialism: A Hierarchical World Order Centered on China

• Kang & Ma (Ch. 3) The Lessons Of East Asian History (500–1900) Internal Challenges, Not External Threat
• In class notes(1/27)

• Kang & Ma (Ch. 5) The Small Attack the Large - The Imjin War (1592 - 1598)
• Kang & Ma (Ch. 7) How Korea Remained Independent until 1910 - The Common Conjecture Between Small and Large States
• In class notes (1/29)
• Questions

Topic 4 :  Organized Hypocrisy: East Meets West in the Nineteenth Century (2/3)