POLI 243 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: World Trade Organization, Unemployment Benefits, Opec

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 243
• Professor: Mark Brawley

Document Summary

Lecture 8: the domestic or national level1/30/2012 8:41:00 am. Opening the black box examples of domestic-level theories. Culture: why did germany start the war, changes really slowly. Not a good causable variable: what do the people of that society want to protect/what do they see as important. Regime-type: germany did not have a democracy. Could create their own foreign policy: shows up in cold war as well. Contest between us and democracy vs. soviet union. Ideology: communists believed in one party, why do some states worry about certain goals. Domestic stability: stability of gov"t, domestic unrest, some kind of internal stability and gov"t must use foreign policy to fix it. Economic characteristics: why would country that could supply needs internally be less involved in wto than import based economy country. Us: high tech low pop density, could supply resources internally, did not collapse when trading halted.