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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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