Directions: Drawing on the range of readings and lecture over the first two weeks, in AT LEAST 3-4 double-spaced, typed pages respond to the following questions:

1. Analyze the current state of the discipline of IR. What are the key paradigms/ worldviews? How are they similar? Different?

2. What is the relationship between IR and History? How do the scholars you read address this relationship? What are some of the problems the scholars have with IR’s use of history? How can history as well as other disciplines enhance the sub-filed of IR? Why is “historicizing” (placing in proper historical context) international relations theorists important?

3. Is there a Western bias in IR theory? Why is this problematic, and what can be done to fix it?