POLI 244- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 33 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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What is international relations: seeks to understand how the peoples and countries of the world get along. Why do we study world politics: to attempt to make the world a better place. The peace of westphalia (1648): settlement that ended the 30years war and created modern state system. Pre-westphalian world: hre: centralization of political power, middle ages: decentralized political authority, protestant reformation: decentralization of religious authority; 30years war. State sovereignty order: centralized of political, centralized of religious power, decentralization of political power, decentralization of religious power. International anarchy: decentralized political authority, self-help and the use of force, domestic political order vs. the international system. 8 countries: political regime: number of required signature, natural resource endowment: oil, fish, minerals. 1000 factors: scenario-specific objectives and points at stake: 10, 5,3, or 1. Resource factors: butter, guns, actions: trade, foreign aid, other exhanges.
