GOVT1104 Study Guide - Complex Network, Gabriel Almond, Wage War

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Government Relations
• Course: GOVT1104
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Fundamental assumptions of the meaning of certain phenomena: cause and effect, guides analysis, affects policy choices. Levels of analysis: what causes behaviour. Their motivations and beliefs affect policy choice. Large organisations in states: govt depts, ngos. Foreign policy, economic policy, military action and diplomacy are tools of the state: sub- systemic. Regional groups of countries. Tncs, ngos and igos: systemic. Structure of the political world. Realism v liberalism in depth: realism = you cannot get rid of conflict. Liberalism = you can get rid of conflict. Liberalism the origin of conflict is from people but you can change the nature of these people: state. Liberalism also places importance on systemic and subsystemic actors. Those above the state this is different to a realist view. Liberalism is about gain for all actors whereas realism is growth for the individual state. Liberalism is more emphasis on progress of all kinds. Liberalism wishes to increase international interdependence.