POLSCI 2I03 Study Guide - Final Guide: Bourgeoisie, Securitization, Class Conflict
18 Dec 2015
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An approach to international politics that concerns itself with the centrality of ideas and human consciousness and stresses a holistic and idealist view of structures. The principle that within its territorial boundaries the state is the supreme political authority, and that outside those boundaries the state recognizes no higher political authority. What it means to be male or female in a particular place or time; the social construction of sexual difference. A distribution of power among a number (at least three) of major powers or "poles". The use of illegitimate violence by sub-state groups to inspire fear, by attacking civilians and/or symbolic targets. These are sets of implicit or explicit principles, norms, rules, and decision-making procedures around which actors" expectations converge in a given area of international relations. A historical process involving a fundamental shift or transformation in the spatial scale of human social organization that links distant communities and expands the reach of power relations across regions and continents.
