POLI 2057 Lecture : 2057 Mid Term Notes
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Poli 2057 notes and review for midterm. Why study international relations? government: relevance to daily life. International relations concerns the relationships among the world"s: trend globalization this helps to internationalize us as a whole. Domestic vs. international politics: characteristics of the international system, anarchy, sovereignty. Levels of analysis beings: great leaders (think jfk, lenin, domestic (state level, concerns the aggregations of individuals within states that influence state actions in the international arena. Interest groups, political organizations, and government agencies: varies in their choices from state to state. ***-peace of westphalia ending the thirty years war. What came before: antiquity, medieval feudalism, decentralized and overlapping spheres of authority, local landholdings nobility, state wide organization kings or other figure, supranational holy roman empire. Because we have states, and they have territories to rule. Maintain order if two states fighting then dominate state can intervene and say stop: basis of realism.
