POLI 244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Apple Pie, Warsaw Pact, International Atomic Energy Agency
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Institutions finesse pd: physical buildings, define cheating: how to play tit for tat w/o rules, must know what cheating is to play pd. Imf is an organization just for the us and its allies. Institutions are do not have explanatory power on its own countries behind them explain their powers. What conflicts are, what cooperation is, who the outsiders are. Finding who is inside or outside of your community and how you interact with the two groups labels r us: more than a label. We identify with those who are similar to you. Who gives the labels: content: multiple meanings, contested, varying. Civic vs ethnic: civic one tied to a state, a flag, a constitution, i. e. us george washington, apple pie, football, canada multicultural mosaic, maple syrup, moose, ethnic tied to ethnicity. Nationalism: the desire to have its own country: doesn"t count for canada but quebec is an aspiration, nationalists are aggressive, want territory, are crazy.