POG 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Yom Kippur War, Nasserism, Global Governance

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POG 100
• Professor: Patrick Dutil

Document Summary

Lecture 10: international relations: can theories explain syria. What is international relations? (5 subfields in political science) Formal and informal politics that cross national borders. Article 22 of the covenant of the league of nations. + people not yet able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world were to be taught by the western world racist language. + 1947 1956: 20 different cabinets, 4 separate constitutions, several military coups. + 1981: at war with israel in lebannon. + 2005: murder of lebanese pm rafic hariri. + 2008: withdrawal of syria from lebanon/diplomatic relations resumed. Definition: a set of generalized principles that have descriptive, explanatory, and predictive value allowing us to generate hypotheses, explanations, and predictions about world politics. + realism: immediate interest, how a country interprets its interests. Realism: anarchy is the principal feature of the international system. Structural anarchy: the assumption that no higher authority exist than above the state.