PEACEST 2BB3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Imperial Units, World Politics
2 Apr 2018
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1) are there enduring logics of conflict and cooperation in. Imperial system: one government controls most of the world with which it has contact. Feudal system: human loyalties and political obligations are not fixed primarily by territorial boundaries. Anarchic system of states: states that are relatively cohesive but with no higher government above them. International politics: politics in the absence of a common sovereign/politics among entities with no ruler above them. Realism: more dominant tradition in thinking about international politics, central problem is war/force, central actors are states. Think there is always a threat from global states. Thinks states can act in conjunction with global entities for positive reasons. Constructivism: focus on identities, norms, culture, national interests and international governance, the nature of anarchy can change based on these aspects. Marxism: economic classes are the international actors, historical materialism, capitalism drives international relations and eventually to the ground.
