POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Travel Warning, Centrism, The Who
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Wong (ie. the monk school of global affairs- institution and track of global governance) Global gov- normatively appealing, we want global peace rather than anarchy. International system- it is a form of gov"t intended to be applied to international level- managing international system theories: ie. realism or neoliberal policies. Realist approach: pessimistic, anarchic and conflict is the norm (prone to conflict), relative power imbalances we live in an international system with no global government and we live in an anarchic system b. c we favour national interests (personal interests). Only way to balance power- hegemonic stability- an all powerful country maintaining stability (ex. Ww1- resulted due to the rise of germany industrialising and challenging the hegemonic power of england (which was on the decline) = conflict = structural realist approach to explaining this war. We were thinking about international system in the beginning of 20th cen. Neoliberal- similar to realist- view world as international anarchy- no such thing as world gov"t.