POLI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Security Dilemma, Berlin Wall, Unintended Consequences
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We will try to understand the world through general concepts. International politics is the study of relations between states. !-how do countries get richer? (trade, development, globalization) !-we need to make connections between points of information seemingly. Why does all this matter: basic concepts to understand the international system. !-international: from feudal system to imperial system to interstate system. !-domestic: from monarchy/autocracy to democracy (in many places). International system is not static. ! (unlike how john says there have always been and always will be states is not right) !-good thing: we are not condemned to repeat the past. !-bad thing: we often repeat the past anyway. (some governments now look like !they(cid:1932)re running the same risks (economic policies such as protectionism) as the !ones the preceded the wws) The point: small events in one place can have huge effects elsewhere. !-uniqueness. (the whole is greater than the sum of the parts)
