[POLS 110] - Midterm Exam Guide - Ultimate 29 pages long Study Guide!

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 110
• Professor: Andrew Lister

Document Summary

Introduction: globalization - widening, depending, and speeding up of worldwide interconnectedness, associated with the emergence of global politics where the distinction between domestic and international affairs is disappearing. Europe ability"s to insist on respect for all their sovereign rights yet deny these rights to their colonies: sovereignty - having ultimate authority over a territory, sovereign state is one that governs itself independent of foreign power. The united states and the unipolar moment: us played an important role in negotiation the end of the cold war by reassuring numerous nervous. Obama rejected the idea that american was in decline or that it would be overtaken by china: the us had formidable assets but the world was changing thus the us had to devise more flexible policies. Chapter 5: rising powers and the emerging global order. What is power: different levels of power, 1.