ARTS1811 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: International Criminal Court, Aetherius Society, Wield
11 Nov 2018
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Key actors in the stories of politics and ir. Questions to ask: where do existing government structures come from, whose interests do these represent, how do they shape power and privilege, poverty, representation etc. Understand history + context from which situations emerge. (e. g trade regimes advantaging certain countries and disadvantaging others) Key actors in the realm of government and global politics. Actors have potential to shape and be shaped by the rules that govern social relations. Control over finance: ideological power control over belief systems, norms, values. (e. g communism, neo, political power centralised and territorial regulation of social life. Exclusive to domain of: sovereignty supreme, legitimate, rule-making, binding authority over their territorial liberalism, religions, human rights. ) Sets of ideas about what is right and wrong. Can be just as powerful as written law: only 20th century, emergence of welfare states through outcome of wars. States began space (including monopoly over violence). states.
