POLS3001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tangled, Comparative Politics
1 Aug 2019
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Introduction: the new foreign policy chapter one . The tangled tale of tibet demonstrates how no policy issue is exclusively foreign or exclusively domestic in nature. The tangled tale of tibet demonstrates, too, how state and non-state actors try to build coalitions in support of their policy preferences, linking their issues with those of others. National leaders are said to play a two-level, dual, or nested game between the demands of the international system and those of domestic politics. The study of foreign policy is the study of both the statements or policies of decision makers as well as the behaviors or actions of states and the study of the processes that result in statements and behaviors. The levels of analysis used in the study of foreign policy are the individual, state and system levels. These are heuristic devices or tools that help us manage our subject matter.
