SOSC 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Northern Canada, The Dilemma, Environmental Security
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International relations is the examination of how states interact with others (peaceful interactions, etc) Ir was developed in the early stages of the 20th centuries: states are the inventions of human beings. They were invented by humans. (obviously didn"t show up by itself: can be degraded or ungraded by people. In this class, the prof will mostly talk about states. We start in 1648, the year of major apocalypse come to an end. Britain and france end their force: 1990s last factor of the growth of the state system breakup of the britain (15 states replaced 1) Isolationism is when states isolates themselves with other states. Was a strategy used somewhat successfully, (united states used it as a primary strategy for them) didn"t want anything to do with europe. Believed it was some never ending bs going on over there. So they did their own thing: north korea of a state to date trying it.