PSCI 2601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: North American Free Trade Agreement, Westernization, Socalled
16 Dec 2017
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Multiple names: international relations, international politics, global politics, world politics. The very nature of world politics has changed since the phenomenon of globalization. The academic discipline that studies international politics. The starting point of international relations is the existence of states, or independent political communities, each of which possess a government and asserts sovereignty in relation to a particular segment of the human population. Change in the traditional notion of sovereignty. Flip side: sovereignty is still dear to many people. More countries being included in the un states. People still desiring to be sovereign states (ie. palestine) International politics, like all politics, is a struggle for power. Whatever the ultimate aims of international politics, power is always the immediate aim. Interest in the politics and political patterns in the world and not only those between nation-states. Relations between institutions and organizations that may or may not be states. Play a major role in international politics.
