POLS 2940 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cultural Genocide, North American Free Trade Agreement, Hegemony
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Whatever terminology used: our focus is on the relations bw (and among) various actors in the international / global system. Is the state still the center of the international system. For our purposes we want consider the many diff levels of international interaction. Who is authentic" stories, matter even more (adichie) Faultline of politics is those who embrace globalization and those that fear globalization. The process of increasing interconnectedness bw societies such that events in one part of the world have effect on people"s & societies far away (held and. Diff treaties, nafta, transatlantic, international laws with genocide/ human rights. Who can have power and expert power. Nye: hard and soft power smart power . Do you feel u have any power to change things in ur community, in ur country, in the world. Ghettoization of the ir discipline: discourse and language very much remains exclusionary".