INR 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: World Politics
Document Summary
The study of how global actions" activities entail the exercise of influence to achieve and defend their goals and ideals , and how if affects the world at large. The process of reasoning by which new information is interpreted according to a memory structure, a schema, which contains a network of generic scripts , metaphors, and simplified characteristics of observed objects and phenomena. The tendency of states and people in competitive interaction to perceive each other similarity- to see others the same hostile way others see them. Prolonged competition fueled by deep-seated mutual hatred that leads opposed actors to feud and fight over a long period of time without resolution of their conflict. An individual, group, state, or organization that plays a major role in world politics. A state"s supreme authority to manage internal affairs or foreign relations. An independent legal entity with a government exercising exclusive control over the territory and population it governs.