PSC 116 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Territorial Entity
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International relations: concerns the relationships among the worlds governments. Collective goods problem: the problem of how to provide something that benefits all members of a group regardless of what each member contributes to it. Dominance: solves collective goods problem by establishing a power of hierarchy in which those at the top control those below. Reciprocity: solves the collective goods problem by rewarding behavior that contributes to the group and punishing behavior that pursues self-interest at the expense of the group. Identity: members of an identity community care about the interests of others in that community enough to sacrifice their own interests to benefit others. Issue areas: scholars and foreign policy makers focus attention on. State actors: a territorial entity controlled by a government and inhabited by a population. Nation states: states whose populations share a sense of national identity, usually including a language and culture. Nonstate actors: actors that operate across international borders.