POL 2103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Human Nature, Bureaucracy
23 Sep 2018
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Argued that domestic and international relations are fundamentally different. By focusing so much on human nature it ignored the way the international system was structured: levels of analysis. First image: individuals: leaders & psychology, human nature, war begins with individuals. System: collection of related parts units that are interrelated works as a whole, but is also composed of different units. System = units +structure: if you put the parts together you still wouldn"t get what made the organism into it"s whole, the system as a whole has certain kinds of characteristics that the parts themselves don"t have. Anarchy vs. hierarchy if states and state governments are an example of hierarchy. Anarchy for ir theorists does not mean. It has an order but it is not hierarchical. He believes that states are formally good to each other. All states are equal because all of them have supreme authority over their land. Ararchism is that no one is ruling over.
