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Definitions
1. Power:
Transformative capacity,
ability to make a difference
2. Institution:
Power systems, an attempt
to control the lives of
individual by the use of
rules
3. Nation-state:
A geographical area with
recognised border and a
government; power
container that has high
concentration of both
allocative and authoritative
resources
Characteristics*
Political apparatus
Have sovereign
rights within borders
of demarcated
territorial area
Able to back its
claims to
sovereignty by
military power
Have citizens with
positive feelings of
commitment to its
natural identity
4. Political apparatus:
Leader or gov supported by
institution
5. Demarcated territorial
area:
Geographical area; country
6. Sovereignty:
Control over the area and
people who live there
7. National identity:
Characteristics displayed
by people
8. Polyarchic:
Have set of legal rules
which provide individual
with civil and political
rights
9. Dialectic control:
conditions and
details rights and obl
of parties involved
Contract law:
body of law
that govern
contract
enforcement
Property right: legal
rights over the use
to which a resource
is put.
Foreign
corrupt
practises act
Intellectual property:
product of
intellectual activity
Protect
o Patent
(exclusi
ve
rights
to use
etc.)
o Copyrig
ht
(exclusi
ve legal
right of
author)
o Tradmar
k
(design
and
name
to
differen
tiate)
3. Economic systems
Market: productive
activities determined
by the interaction of
supply and demand
Command: gov plans
the goods and
services that a
country produces;
quantity and prices
2. Neglected factors
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Us should be worlds
unchallenged
superpower
4. Realism: guided by
practical considerations
than ideology
Strong alliance is
important
Weigh political costs
of foreign action
Russia-ukraine conflict
1. Causes
NATIONAL SECURITY
Globalization threats
1. Proliferation of weapons
2. Cyber attacks
3. Ethnic violence
4. Global crime
5. Drug trafficking
6. Environmental degradation
7. Spread of infectious
diseases
stabilize trade
environment
Limit price inflation
Lend foreign
currencies
World Bank: promote general
economic development;
international bank for
reconstruction and development
(IBRD)
o Roles:
Raised money thru
bonds for lending
WTO: organization that
encompassed GATT and other 2:
GATS and TRIPS
o Roles:
Facilitate future
trade deals
Policing and
enforcement
mechanism
o Benefits:
Promote peace
Handle disputes
Rules that make life
easier
Freer trade
More choice of
products
Raise incomes
Stimulates economic
growth
Efficient basic
principles gov are
shielded from
lobbying
Encourage good gov
India
o Environmental issues
Air pollution:
biomass, vehicle.
Water
Land and soil
o Solutions
Public interest
litigation
Envi edu
Sewage treatment
policies
Biomass energy
Global scale:
Unep united nations
envi programme
Unea
Meas multilateral
envi aggreements
Ciel center for int
envi law
ANTI GLOBALIZATION
Tenets:
popular
democracy
(participate in
dec making
thru
referendums
economic
independence
distribution of
wealth
end corruption
policies:
nationalized
many
industries
free
healthcare
mission
habitat,
provide
housing
mission
mercal,
provide ffod
Mission
robinson,
provide
education
outcomes:
growth
corruption and
nepotism
mismangment
of resources
embezzlement
high rate of
inflation
isolationist
fiscal and
foreign
policies
rationing
Social movement:
collective, organized
version of protest
o Revolutionary movement:
social movement to
overthrow government
How MST in brazil an example
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who,why?
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