PL SC 014 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Arab Spring, New International Economic Order, Eurocentrism
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After arab spring in 2011, authoritarian arab rulers removed from power. Us and allies support rebels fighting assad, ruler of syria. Russia sends ground troops to support assad, creating tension with nato. Def system: a collection of objects or parts brought together by regular interaction. A change in one object causes changes in the other. Boundaries separate systems but exchange can occur across them. Changes within a system can cause it to break or become something else international relations is characterized as a system. A multipolar system has power concentrated in two or more states. Short alliances form based on advantage rather than ideology. Wars are limited and preserve a balance of power. Bipolar systems have power distributed between two states. Certainty of opponents and threats long term alliances. A unipolar system"s power resides in one state. Disagreement about whether this has happened the closest we have come to a unipolar system was after the soviet union dissolved.
