[POL 203] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (85 pages long!)

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 203
• Professor: Mc Guinn Bradford

Document Summary

1st essay- something in international relations that interests you. The wicked problem- problems that don"t have clear beginning middle and end- ill structured. Anarchy: assumed to be a preexisting condition in the world, lack of government or central authority, chaos, internationally, the world is a anarchic one, because besides the un, there is no central government ruling everyone. Sovereignty: countries are always interested in protecting this first. Whirling: what happens in a vortex (anarchy, noel coward"s the vortex- morality play after wwi. The old standards for morality have been forgotten: iraq is in anarchy on both the state and international level- which is why this is such a wicked problem. What happens between 2 or more people with different agendas- groups of human beings. Power- who is control: martin wight. Starts with anarchy and security dilemma- and suggests that there are three different intellectual traditions: Anarchy: hedley bull- the anarchical society (scholar, elie kedourie- middle east and european thought scholar.