POLS 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Middle Power, Soft Power, Combat Missions
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Activities of individual and groups within states and involving the governmental machinery of states, which are designed to have an impact on the policies of other states or on individuals and groups within them fred sondermann. Peripheral defensive- not possible to have our own independent. Liberal internationalist- is a foreign policy doctrine that argues that liberal states should intervene in other sovereign states in order to pursue liberal objectives. Such intervention can include both military invasion and humanitarian aid foreign policy because we are so influenced/dependant on the united. States (2002 immigration act, completely changed because of what happened on 9/11 and the americans) Realist theory - in order for us to maintain our independent security we need to have 1 central authority. If we do not, then countries will just have to go for survival of the fittest. is the most important factor in international relations.