POSC 107 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Peloponnesian War, Non-Governmental Organization
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1. international relations in daily life: nongovernmental organization (ngo, the local chapters around the globe that try to influence the local, national, and international agendas. 4. and as a group in international political processes. Interdisciplinary field of inquiry: use concepts from history, economics, anthropology, and political science, structure of the international system based on realism, determined by the distribution of power among states, based on the structure of liberalism. 5: rooted in many philosophical traditions that say human nature is good . Invites its students to acquire detailed knowledge of specific events. 3: useful in making/testing generalizations, with patterns from the past, students can explain relationships between events, diplomatic historian, uses documents from cases where wars occurred, describes the patterns leading to war, searches for explanations for causes of war. 5. the scientific method: behaviorism: 1950"s, scholars drew upon understanding of nature of humans and on history, wanted to develop a more scientific approach to studying international.
