POLS 261 Study Guide - Final Guide: Cuban Missile Crisis, Social Actions, Hegemony

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 261
• Professor: Stefanievon Hlatky

Document Summary

We can think of the individual as a person and how that can inform us on their decision making (background, values) Cognitive approach: what goes on in their brain. Stress and crises lead to lower brain function/iq, when decision making. Leade(cid:396)s(cid:859) popula(cid:396)it(cid:455) can trade into bargaining power, high platforms used to reach out to people. Bureaucratic politics, role of gvt, public opinion, media, religion, cultural stereotypes. Personal characteristics of decision-makers, cognitive approaches and rationality (stress, fatigue) States have sovereignty and can make their own decisions. Focuses on power, security and state interests. Seeing the world as it is rather than what it should be. See conflict as a normal part of international politics and something that is unlikely to disappear. Self-help: realization that you have to help yourself if you want to survive. Classical view (morgenthau): human nature > power politics. Route of conflict: human nature, people are bad.