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| | Class-Defined | Main Test9 |
| | Theory-name | Neo-realist ? Morton A. Kaplin |
| | Theory-Purpose | introductior Theory of international politics [systems |
| | approach..p382] |
| | Note | Theory of international politics normaly cannot be expected |
| | to predict individual actions because the interaction problem |
| | is too complex, and because there are too many free |
| | parameters. It can be expected, however, to predict |
| | characteristic or model behavior within a particular kind of |
| | international system - Kaplan [system approach p.383] |
| | International systems with different alignment patterns et. |
| | Should manifest different behaviors…it should be possible |
| | both to give reasons for the differences (theory) and to |
| | relate the theories of different systems to different actual |
| | historical systems [p.383] |
| | system and subsystem in the international system have |
| | roles and these roles have different funtions depending upon |
| | whether they couple activity within the subsystems of a |
| | larger system or between system levels, Deviancy, |
| | accomodation, assimilation, conflict and other forms of |
| | change occur as the functions of the roles change in the |
| | various systemic topological economies..the possible |
| | inconsistencies of these role functions under changing |
| | parameter values lead to restructuring of some of the role |
| | functions in order to maintain others. If the dominant |
| | system can be found and its essential rules and |
| | transformation rules formulated, a long stride will be taken |
| | toward predicting the changes that the [actor] will attempt to |
| | make in the systems to which it is coupled and also within |
| | its own internal structure in order to maintain itself under |
| | changing boundary conditions.4 …tasks are those things |
| | that the actor needs to perform. They are set for him by |
| | what (who) he is, by the situations in which he is embedded, |
| | and by his perceptions of these. They involve a multiplicity |
| | of interlinking roles within and between a diversity of social |
| | systems. Roles and functions on the other hand specify the |
| | behavior required to maintain the equilibrium of a particular |
| | (analytical) social system. They are performed to the extent |
| | that individuals within the system can be properly |
| | motivated or replaced; system change occurs when this is |
| | no longer possible] [Kaplan - Systems Approach p. 384]. |
| | Differentiation of international systems merely bv number |
| | of actors ignores too manyother elements nf system |
| | structure be useful either theoreticallv or descriptively. … |
| | Too many other parameters that influence. [kaplan 385] |
| | The models employed in System and Process utilize five |
| | sets of variables: the essential rules, the transformation |
| | rules, the actor classificatory variables, the capability |
| | variables, and the information variables. The essential rules |
| | of the systems state the behavior necessary to maintain |
| | equilibrium in the system—thus they are essential. The |
| | transformation rules state the changes that occur in the |
| | system as inputs across the boundary of the system that |
| | differ from those required for equilibrium They movethe |
| | system toward instability orthe stability of a new system. |
| | Actor clasification varibles specifythe structure charistics of |
| | actors. [nation state, "allience", "international organizations" - |
| | behavior differs as consequence fo structural |
| | characteristics. P 387-388 |
| | In all systems studied so far, the actors who threatened the |
| | Definition-power | various, balance f power, Loose bipolar, etc.; |
| | System-Change- | There are transformation rules, Not all systems change the |
| | same way, Structure and norms of the system - Kaplan. |
| | System-Change- | tasks are those things that the actor needs to perform. They |
| | |
| | are set for him by what (who) he is, by the situations in |
| | which he is embedded, and by his perceptions of these. |
| | They involve a multiplicity of interlinking roles within and |
| | between a diversity of social systems. Roles and functions |
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