POLS 051 Lecture Notes - Resource Allocation, Europe 1, Glasnost
10 Apr 2013
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Introduction: january 17: what is international relations, subfield of political science, study of how states interact with one another, uses empirical questions, does not ask should questions, only why . One power no longer projects dominance over other countries: non-polarity is bad, for the us and planet as whole, background info, multi-polarity: there is a number of states/blocks of states exerting most power in international political system. Has lead the us to be more dependent on foreign states. Many manifestations of globalization are beyond the scope of what states can control. Power of individual, sovereign state, including us, has decreased: america"s image has been tarnished by actions abroad. Obama has tried to make us seem more like a power, willing to intervene with cooperation of our allies: military"s flaws. Our military is overstretched, with too many projects going on in too many places. There"s a lot going on, but we"re not doing too well at any one of them.
