POLI 354 Lecture : Lecture #1.docx

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 354
• Professor: Mark Brawley

Document Summary

International: relationship between states describing international regimes what is happening at the system level, what are the dominant practices and the given norms governing how states make policies in monetary relations or in trade at some point in time, state to state level of relationship and outcomes, domestic sources of goals domestic politics. Realism: all about power and competition b/w states: core assumptions stress that states are key actors in international system and states want power so that is the tool that will be used to explain regimes come and go, all about power and competition, all about states, look at states and how they"re using power. Liberalism: states doing b/c individuals want them to, role of individuals and with international investment, multinational corporations important and influence what states do and what they ask for, interests of certain domestic actors.