POLI 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: North American Free Trade Agreement, Autocracy, Feudalism

• School: UBC
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 260
• Professor: Arjun Chowdhury

Document Summary

We are going to describe the "what: we want to describe the way things look. When we gives facts we should pay attention to trends: ie how is 1783 different from 1883. Two levels of organizatoin/system: international relations (relations between polities, domestic (comparative) (relations within polities) Two big changes: international - fuedal system -> imperial -> interstate, domestic - from monarchy/autocracy -> democracy. Why these changes matter: international system is not changing, history, globalization (increased trade/increased migration) isnt thattttt new. In the past 50 years there have been no wars between great powers. International systems have a big type of impact on how the states act with each other. The power system in the middle called the core, this is a central power controlls all policies (this is rather an empire) Over lapping authorities at local levels, no central authority. Rule is decentralized, there is no common legal system: arbitrary taxation, unpredictable.