POL 1025 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hegemonic Stability Theory, World Government, Non-Aligned Movement
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Liberal: qualitative descriptive international relations- (going to stick with this one) Balance of power relative gains; multipolarity security dilemma. Liberalism is the idea of building international insitutions, people are not out for themselves. We all live together and we can love each other, united nations, international law, collective security agreements. Neoliberalism say that is all good but we want to go further, we want to create international society, into the idea of doctors without borders. Build a world society, basic human rights and we can work together to promote those. In addition to working on institutions we need to work on society. Friday, september 18, 2015: public opinion is largely irrelevant in making foreign policy, public opinion is important, but only in democracies. Long term objectives: igos- international governmental organization -organization of nation states that has a charter, has regular meetings, procedures, ingos. Balance of power is an informal set of rules.
