POLS 1500 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Kyoto Protocol, Hard Power, Civic Nationalism
16 Apr 2017
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1: chapter 5: making foreign policy - sept 21, 2016. Foreign policy- the articulation of a national interests and the means chosen to secure those interests, both material and ideational, in the international arena. Statecraft- the methods and tools that national leaders use to achieve the national interests of a state. Articulation of national interests (the goals of a nation-state) and the means to secure those interests. National interest: material and ideational goals of a non-state. Material interest- physical goals of state officials as they set foreign policy. Trade agreements, energy resources, control over strategic territory. Ideational/ideal interest- psychological, moral, and ethnic goals of a state as it sets foreign and domestic policy. Promotion of values, norms, policy ideas which increase security and prosperity. Order of sovereign states (westphalian system) developed in europe. Rise of nationalism rationalized this state order, later extending beyond europe. Globalization may undermine this political order by eroding sovereign territorial power.
