POL312Y1 Midterm: POL312 Study Notes
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Three components of gov"t behaviour that tells us about fp: declarations authoritative statement of overall foreign policy issued by governments when they first take office helps us understand the new governments understandings, ideologies, and conception of identities, interests, values and priorities, distribution of resources distribution of money, material and personnel helps us understand where the gov"t"s true preferences and priorities lie, decisions particularly those that resolve crises mark major turning points, or set a pattern for other decisions to come (ex. About enduring interests of a country as a whole and are necessary to survive; meet/produce 6 interconnected core national interests to be successful: survival canada has faced issues from being absorbed into america to fragmenting and dividing without quebec entity; one of the oldest continuously surviving countries in the world, security: has experienced few military assaults on home soil or real invasion since.
