POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Archos, Untermensch, Thomas Hobbes
20 Jul 2013
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Identifying what we want to understand: international relations (discipline itself, international politics, world politics. International relations: ir: inter + nation relations= relations between nations, problematizing ir . Nations is a very recent invention in political terms. International politics: better: focus on politics, focus is still on nations. World politics: focus on politics, focus on the world. Politics at a world level: thinking about the world. Variable understandings of what the world means. The world= the entire globe/all of mankind: a relatively recent way of seeing the world. Historically, partial notions were the commoner way of conceptualizing the world: civilized/barbarian. Always refers to the civilized self and the barbarian other. 17th century imperial china/uncivilized lands: hua and yi. 19th century european imperialism and the lesser races . 20th century nazi rassenpolitik: distrinctions based on race. Utermensch (lit. under-men, back- translated as sub-human )- contrast to the neitzche"s. Untermenschen: jews, slavs, roma, people of colour.
