POLI 2520 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Complex Interdependence
5 Mar 2015
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Seven guiding questions (the other side) > liberal internationalist perspective: - multiplicity of influential and powerful actors. Many non-state actors often circumvent state interests. Need to include this complexity in world politics. Need to imagine a collection of transparencies, each tracking different relations/ interactions across all the different actors and non-state organizations: -nations states/state policy influenced by both internal and external actors. Multiple conflicting policies that cause policies to be selected and implemented. Give them power to process information to decision makers. Push for policy based on external influences/needs. Globalized terrorism: - foreign policy is the product of compromise not rational calculations. Complex interdependence, importance of bargaining, bureaucratic struggle. Models have to adapt, become more contemporary. Translation between what you think is happening and actually happens is destroyed: - power is a really difficult concept to rationalize, as the system changes power changes.
