POLI 319 Study Guide - Winter 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - International Law, Canada, Cold War

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 319
• Professor: Daniel Douek

Document Summary

What can you do in the u. s if you want to achieve/make progress toward your political objectives: lobbying, appeal to public, campaigns, advertisements, donations to corporations. What are the constraints facing political actors when they want to advance an agenda: getting access. Major influences on u. s political culture: the education system, the media and popular culture, socialization: school, the family and social networks, the importance of religion. How can there be so much political conflict then: strong views vs. fanatical views, values, cultural polarization and moral standing. We will look at how these provincial actors affect things later on: the un itself does not have foreign policy, only the state actors within the un. The un is a platform on which states can very clearly state their foreign policy and ambitions: cities do not have foreign policy but they do have international interests. There is a small elite within the government who know the true aims of the state.