POLSCI 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Kosovo Force, Cuban Missile Crisis, Berlin Brigade
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Possess the ability to determine their own actions. Six principles help us understand what they want, how they might get, what they think others will do, and the environment in which they operate. Choice of actors to study is central to analysis. Any situation can be studied in different ways focusing on different actors. We learn different things from different approaches. Actors cannot act in isolation, they must consider what others will do. Capabilities: influencing others to do as you wish. Corporate actors have internal politics as well, but fuse personal interests for corporate. Institutions: the setting in which actors interact goals. Internal and external autonomy has often been compromised due to practical politics and state like entities. The ability to enter into relations w other states. Although modern conception of a state dates from 1500-ish, the fusing of the state w a national identity brought the state to full force. Us: allegiance to a set of political ideals.
