POLI 244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Research Question, Catholic Monarchs, Centrism

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 244
• Professor: Fernando Nunez- Mietz

Document Summary

Course introduction: international relations as an academic subject. Introduction to international relations and world politics in a new era - international politics: state behaviour poli 244. Further reading: j. david singer (1961), the level-of-analysis problem in international. What are international relations? the study of behaviour of actors as they interact focus on modern international relations typically arbitrary. Political unites in the modern state system > sovereign states. The evolution of the international political system > centralization of political authority in. Europe (high in the roman empire, down before the westphalian treaties and now up again) > state sovereignty decentralized political authority self-help and the use of force. Levels of analysis > the three images of ir theorizing. Levels of analysis - state centrism - research question. 1st image (individual) individual decision-makers, factor is the behaviour of the state de ned by the leader. 2nd images (state) domestic institutions, factors are the characteristics of the state (democracy, monarchy, anarchy)