POLS 2940 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Relativism

• School: York University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2940
• Professor: Sandra Whitworth

Document Summary

In terms of politics organization, the nation forms a state: the state is the entity that is recognized as the only legitimate decision maker for the nation, we are starting to see organizations gaining influence in the decisions of the nation (ex. non governmental organizations), the international community is made up entirely of states. International politics is defined by states and this is the opposite: states act in this international space through foreign policy and they also act outside of foreign policy, states sometimes act in ways that are not contiguous or remotely close to what their states foreign policies are, projections of power if we agree that politics is how to live together and even if we take that as a basic definition of politics we must accept that stemming from that politics is also the ways 1) the ways it is not possible to live and 2)