INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

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What is IR? Relationships btwn world

govts Connected w/other actors,

social structure, geographical & historical influences

Trend: globalization9-11Recession 2008-2009

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Core Principles

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Key problem How can countries serve their collective interests when doing so requires member to forgo their interest?

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Collective Goods Problem

How to provide something that benefits all members of a group regardless of what each member contributes to it?

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3 Basic Principles offer possible solutions to

collective goods problem

Dominance Reciprocity Identity

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Dominance Solves CG prob by est a pwr hierarchy in which those at top control those below

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Reciprocity Solves CG by rewarding

behavior that contributes to the group & punishing behavior that pursues self-interest at the expense of a group

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Identity Id of participants as members

of a community- members of an identity community care about the interests of others in the community enough to sacrifice their own interests to benefit others

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Case Study Nuclear proliferation:

DominanceReciprocityIdentity

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Actors & Influences

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State Actors Territory Government Population sovereignty

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International System

Set of relationships among statesModernBefore: city-states, empiresIdea nations have own states: nation states

Some political units not recognized: Taiwan

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Nonstate actors

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Transnational Actors

Operate across international borders

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Intergovernmental Organizations

Orgs whose members are national govtOPECWTONATO

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Multinational Corporations

Companies in many countries

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Nongovernmental Organizations Private organizations

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Substate Actors Exist in one country but

either influence the country’s foreign policy or operates internationally or both

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Types of Nonstate ActorsAbb Type Who? Example

IGO Intergov Org

Members are gov

NGO

MNC

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Types of Nonstate ActorsAbb Type Who? Example

IGO Intergov Org

Members are gov

UN, NATO, Arab League

NGO

MNC

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Types of Nonstate ActorsAbb Type Who? Example

IGO Intergov Org

Members are gov

UN, NATO, Arab League

NGO Nongov Org

Indiv & Groups are members

MNC

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Types of Nonstate ActorsAbb Type Who? Example

IGO Intergov Org

Members are gov

UN, NATO, Arab League

NGO Nongov Org

Indiv & Groups are members

Amnesty Intl, LIONS Club, Red Cross

MNC

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Types of Nonstate ActorsAbb Type Who? Example

IGO Intergov Org

Members are gov

UN, NATO, Arab League

NGO Nongov Org

Indiv & Groups are members

Amnesty Intl, LIONS Club, Red Cross

MNC Multinational Corp

Co in many nations

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Types of Nonstate ActorsAbb Type Who? Example

IGO Intergov Org

Members are gov

UN, NATO, Arab League

NGO Nongov Org

Indiv & Groups are members

Amnesty Intl, LIONS Club, Red Cross

MNC Multinational Corp

Co in many nations

Exxon Mobile, Toyota, Wal-Mart

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Types of Nonstate ActorsAbb Type Who? Example

IGO Intergov Org

Members are gov

UN, NATO, Arab League

NGO Nongov Org

Indiv & Groups are members

Amnesty Intl, LIONS Club, Red Cross

MNC Multinational Corp

Co in many nations

Exxon Mobile, Toyota, Wal-Mart

Others/ Substate

Indiv, cities, constituencies

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Types of Nonstate ActorsAbb Type Who? Example

IGO Intergov Org

Members are gov

UN, NATO, Arab League

NGO Nongov Org

Indiv & Groups are members

Amnesty Intl, LIONS Club, Red Cross

MNC Multinational Corp

Co in many nations

Exxon Mobile, Toyota, Wal-Mart

Others/ Substate

Indiv, cities, constituencies

Bono, al Qaeda

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4 Levels of AnalysisGlobalInterstateDomesticIndividual

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Individual Level

Great leaders Crazy leaders Decision

making in crisis

Psych of perception &

decision Learning Assassination

s/ accidents in hist

Citizen participation

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Domestic Level

Nationalism Ethnic conflict Type of gov Democracy Dictatorship Pol parties &

elections

Public opinion Gender Econ sectors Military-

industrial complex

F.P. bureaucracies

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Interstate Level

Pwr Balance of

pwr Alliances Wars Treaties Trade

agreements IGO Diplomacy Summit mtgs Bargaining Reciprocity

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Global Level N-S gap World regions Euro

imperialism UN Religious

fundamentalism

Terrorism

World environ Tech change Info rev Global

telecomm World sci &

business communities

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