POLSCI 160 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3-4: Cuban Missile Crisis, One-China Policy, Self-Determination
20 Nov 2016
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Politics among states versus those inside states. We learn different things from different approaches. Strategic interaction: how do you choose when the choices of others also affect. Actors must consider what other actors will do. Capabilities = influencing others to o as you wish. Perceptions = anticipating what others will do. Rules and institutions = the setting within which actors interact. Treated as 1 actor, even though they are composed of many people (incorporating a number of people, operating toward a common purpose. States are the fundamental political units of world politics. Internal autonomy, monopoly on legitimate use of force. O(cid:374)e state does(cid:374)"t have the authority to tell a(cid:374)other state (cid:271)efore: states are legally equal, with external autonomy. All get to set their own foreign policies: states respect one another"s territorial integrity and have boundaries. In reality, internal and external autonomy of states have often been compromised: because of practical politics, state like entities.
