POLS 2940 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Kenneth Waltz, Straitjacket, Eurocentrism

• School: York University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2940
• Professor: Monika Thakur

Document Summary

The self, identity and responsibility beyond borders: globalization. International relations: international relations (ir) discipline within political science versus international relations (ir) relations between actors in system. International relations/politics versus world/global politics: essentially the same thing. Ir is a subdiscipline within political science: our focus is on the relations between and among various actors in the international/global system. Actors in international relations: states (countries), international organizations, regional organizations, transnational and multinational corporations, global civil society, religious organizations, individuals, question of if the state is in the center of international systems. International security studies/strategic studies: peace studies, foreign policy analysis (fpa, area studies, as such, ir is inter-disciplinary. 2: the process of increasing interconnectedness between societies such that events in one part of the world have effects on peoples and societies far away (held & mcgrew, 2007) Critiques of ir: the discipline: public debate and policy, eurocentric: westphalian straitjacket. Ghettoization" of the ir discipline: discourse and language very much remains.