POL 2103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Human Rights Watch, Arab Spring, Oxfam

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 2103
• Professor: De Larrinaga Miguel

Document Summary

International relations; a discipline: contested, not totally autonomous from the influence of other social sciences disciplines (economics, politics, law, history). It is a relatively new discipline (post-wwii) but a very rich discipline with a large body of data and theories. Woodrow wilson international relations (started before wwii). Most universities study it within political science or international economics and international law umbrella. Global politics, topic, about the content, what we study. Highlights the focus on the political patterns in the world: studies multi-scale actors" interactions at the macro-level that includes transnational actors (include non-states actors operating beyond the traditional unit of analysis: To provide alternative terms to the state-centric traditional approach to ir. Therefore, gp seems to be interested in many levels of actors. Micro level: national level analysis, ethnic conflict, intra-state politics. Global level: transnational level/ non-state actors interaction and their governance; migration, climate change, environment, natural disasters (drought, flood, famine), etc.