POLI 4041 Lecture : POLI4048Notes
Document Summary
System: a set of institutions, patterns of interactions, and causal relations linking component units: units/actors on the international system, states: territorially defined, sovereign. Internal sovereignty: authority of subjects: external sovereignty: independence from sovereign actors, not states pennsylvania, catholic church. Actions of one unit affecting another (trade leading to peace) Dependent variable (what we"re trying to explain), independent (what we"re using to explain it. Trade leading to peaceful interactions: repeated relationships, i. e. if a then b. If states trade more, than they"ll have more peace (dependent variable is peace, trade is independent): security dilemma actions of one state to feel secure makes neighboring states feel less secure. The states in the intl system have sovereignty, but it does not mean chaos: the world we live in is anarchic at the intl level, but there is certainly not a chaotic system (mail, passports and travel, treaties).
