POLS 110 Final: Notes

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 110
• Professor: Oded Haklai

Document Summary

Focus of this course: comparative politics and international relations. Comparative politics: how politics is organized in different countries through systematic comparisons. Understanding political phenomena and processes in various types of contexts including states and institutions political culture and society regimes nationalism and ethnicity and state society relations. International relations is a field of study that focuses on politics in the international milieu: the evolution of the international system, security studies, diplomacy and foreign policy , international organizations and international political economy. As we shall see however these two subfields increasingly intertwine. Domestic politics: need to integrate canadas relations with other countries in order to explain domestic politics. I(cid:374)te(cid:396)(cid:374)atio(cid:374)al politi(cid:272)s: ho(cid:449) i(cid:374)te(cid:396)(cid:374)atio(cid:374)al s(cid:455)ste(cid:373) (cid:449)o(cid:396)ks, diffe(cid:396)e(cid:374)t (cid:272)ou(cid:374)t(cid:396)ies, nato pa(cid:396)t(cid:374)e(cid:396)s et(cid:272) . however one must look at domestic factors to look at the international role that canada plays. Political theory looks at the abstract of political issues. Ir and comparative look at empirical way of politics so what things are actually like.