POLS 2880 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Satisficing, Francis Fukuyama, Rationality

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2880
• Professor: Dr.Andrew Richter

Document Summary

State sovereignty: a state"s sup(cid:396)e(cid:373)e autho(cid:396)it(cid:455) to (cid:373)a(cid:374)age i(cid:374)te(cid:396)(cid:374)al affai(cid:396)s and foreign relations. State: an independent legal entity with a government exercising exclusive control over the territory and population it governs. Nation: a collectivity whose people see themselves as members of the same group because they share the same ethnicity, culture, or language. The glo(cid:271)al a(cid:374)d do(cid:373)esti(cid:272) deter(cid:373)i(cid:374)a(cid:374)ts of states" foreig(cid:374) poli(cid:272)y behavior. Intermestic: a concept used to describe those issues confronting a state that are simultaneously international and domestic. Globalization: the accelerating process by which increasing interstate interconnectedness has eroded the t(cid:396)aditio(cid:374)al disti(cid:374)(cid:272)tio(cid:374) (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) states" domestic and international affairs. Influences, state or internal influences, individual influences, policy- Content of international law, number of military alliances, destruction of forests and animal species, changing levels of international trade: i(cid:374)te(cid:396)(cid:374)al o(cid:396) (cid:862)do(cid:373)esti(cid:272)(cid:863) i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)es a(cid:396)e those that e(cid:454)ist at the le(cid:448)el of the state, not the global system.