POLI 1060 Lecture Notes - Human Security, Humanitarian Intervention, Multinational Corporation

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 1060

Document Summary

Most important: know concepts and be able to apply them: final: cumulative. International politics: the mutual relationship of 2 or more actors at an international level - state most important actor - vs. Foreign policy: manner in which individual states present themselves to the international community. Global village: impact on : social, economic, cultural, political, world in shrinking , we are interconnected: via social media/internet, the world has shrunk, largely due to advances in technological communication, how we are more connected: We have more frequent contact: no country exists in a vacuum; what happens in one country has repercussions around the world, reality: decision-making, economic growth, communications regional. Village = small community of individuals who live together who are social and familiar with each other, with same aim. Fundamental inequity: clear separation between those who have power and those who don"t. International politics: stretch the boundaries into global relationships: cases where domestic and international politics intersect.