POLSCI 2I03- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 54 pages long!)

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 2I03
• Professor: Mark Busser

Document Summary

Office hours: thursdays 11:00 12:00, or by appointment. Basics modules cover key analysis, source integration, citation and synthesis skills. Provides clear and explicit expectations for academic writing and research. Requires baylis, smith and own textbook (current edition) International relations focuses on the state or nation-state. In a territory, the state is able to define who may or may not legitimately use force within its territory (establishes rule of law, authority) Usually associated with borders, bureaucracy eg. canada. Historical heritage that links culture, land; more sociological and anthropological. Patriotism ha(cid:448)i(cid:374)g st(cid:396)o(cid:374)g feeli(cid:374)gs of suppo(cid:396)t o(cid:396) p(cid:396)ide fo(cid:396) o(cid:374)e(cid:859)s politi(cid:272)al state; being proud of things within our own nation and thinking these things are better than elsewhere. Nationalism a political doctrine which holds that the political and national unit should be the same; specific people, heritage and ancestry. Ethnic nationalism stresses specific elements such as common language, race, religion and ancestry.