GINS 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Statism, World Trade Organization, International Criminal Court
21 Nov 2017
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Describe: describes what you see in the world. Explain: why things happen a certain way. Prescribe: what to do to reach your policy goals. State : use of physical force within a given territory - max weber. The supreme authority to make and enforce laws. it is a claim, often contested. A set of institutions health care, federal/provincial government) Claim to the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force: . Different theories operate at different levels of analysis (classical vs. structural realism) Important theoretical problems in shifting levels (collective action problem: society wants cleaner air, individual wants to be lazy and drive) Statism: sovereign states are the main actors. Domestic politics are largely irrelevant in explaining state actions on a world stage. Survival: states pursue national interest in an anarchic world. There is no higher power (sovereignty) at a global level. Hobbes a war of all against all .
