POLSCI 1G06 Study Guide - Final Guide: Westernization, Collective Security, International Criminal Court
23 Apr 2014
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Political science exam review: discuss the system of checks and balances in the canadian political system i. e. the relationship between the crown, the prime minister, the house of commons, the senate, and the judiciary. 2: discuss the political science of terrorism: as a contestable political category, as a recurrent historical phenomenon, and as a modern policy concern. Historical phenomenon: terrorism is not scientifically recent, fight against terrorism, money spent and damage costs is astronomical, anarchist wave (1880"s-1920"s) The great division among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural. Nation states will remain the most powerful actors in world affairs, but the principal conflicts of global politics will occur between nations and groups of different civilizations. The clash of civilizations will dominate global politics : when one civilization interacts with another the conflict will spread, reasons, differences among civilizations, cultural characteristics are less mutable, globalization, de-westernization of elites in non-western areas, economic regionalism.
