PSCI150 Study Guide - Final Guide: Joseph Nye, North American Free Trade Agreement, Mutual Assured Destruction

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PSCI150
• Professor: Eric Helleiner

Document Summary

Bargaining power: capacity of one party to dominate the other due to its influence, size, or power through persuasion tactics. Ex - countries with nuclear capabilities have bargaining power on the world stage over countries that do not have nuclear capabilities. Most a party is willing to lose in an agreement. Gender: the characteristics pertaining to the concepts of masculinity and femininity in a society and how they play out with regards to rights, entitlements and obligations. Patriarchy - there is a dichotomy with both inequality and power between men and women, where men"s work" is valued over women"s work". Women are typically paid less than men doing the same job. Ex - suma the labour bonded girl from nepal didn"t get to go to school, because traditionally, only sons of the family get that privilege. Gender is the difference between men and women in a society in regards to rights, entitlements, and obligations.