POL312Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Middle Power, Purchasing Power Parity, Deglobalization
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What condiion are they in? are they logically connected to. Close look at 5 key components of internaional system: power, relaive capability (canada is realist here: polarity or alignment (atract other states, power and relaive capability. Internaional insituions (what organizaion used inluence on canada?) Ideas, dominant ideas (free world, fellow democracies, loved by construcivists) External determinants (salience (how much), scope (how many), sensiivity (how soon), relaive actors) 1st school: fate-not-will school, 1989, canada"s foreign policy objecives and means to atain them will be shaped by the constraints, an imperaives imposed by geography, economic structure, alignment, and capabiliies of the country. Puts limits on what canada will do, and what must do, and someimes they dictate even the implementaion of cfp. 2nd school, 2006: canada posiion must always be considered in a context of its geostrategic posiion, namely a north american power situated next the us. 3rd school, post-war liberalizaion school: cold war ended and canadians won it.
