INS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hugo Grotius, Nationstates

• School: University of Miami
• Department: International Studies
• Course: INS 101
• Professor: John Twitchell

Document Summary

Relations between independent political groups the global problem of ir (global/ world politics); Setting for ir is a nite territorial world; To understand the ir of the world, history is important: because of state-system and state actors need to be known before they are studied, empirical world; Ir focuses on the various activities of the nation states and their external relations; Ir can be traced back to the ancient greeks, but it became a formal academic area much later. Ir is studied mainly by political scientists, historians, and economists; There are ongoing debates on the scope of ir: almost everything that has to do with the people in the world; Debates of how we should conceptualise the state: state is important in ir; States are important for understanding the progression of events in ir; State-system is the point of reference in ir; The entire population of the world is divided into separate nation-states: citizens think and live differently;