CQ: Why think or care about

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Chapter 1

• CQ Why think or care about
• World Politics?

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Americans the WorldThe importance to each of
us

• Do we see it differently in post 9/11 World?
• Statistical Evidence
• The World US/us
• Why care?

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World Politics your finances

• 9/11 aftermath (personal financial)
• The centrality of intermestic thinking
• 1970s beyond importing/exporting America
• Trade Job gains and losses
• The problem with Buy American thinking

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The flow of international capital your
finances

• International Investment capital
• Who owns America?
• Toyota is 1 Why are many Americans happy?
• International financial markets
• Deficits debts who allows the USG to spend ?
• Defense Spending your finances
• The 20 factor a conundrum for states towns

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World Politics and Your Living Space

• Population increase and resource depletion
• Pollution and environmental destruction
• UNEP
• Global warming Health

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World Politics and Your Life

• War
• Transnational Diseases a historical synopsis
• Buboic plague Spanish flu AIDS and SARS
• Transnational Political Violence
• Civilian-heavy casualties
• Youth, Terrorism ambiguous lines

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How you can make a difference

• Direct action within domestic society
• Lessons of Vietnam
• Boycotts Fair Labor Association (FLA)
• Voting (US EU)
• Public Policy Professional?

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Putting World Events into Context

• The isms of international relations
  political, economic, social impacts

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Introducing Realism and Liberalism

• A false dichotomy
• Other appelations
• Historical Roots applications
• Laying out the basics
• Realism The traditional path
• Liberalism The alternative path

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The Nature of Politics I Realism

• Influence of Thomas Hobbes Influence of Hans
  Morgenthau
• Nature of Man
• Neorealism
• Application to States
• Horizontal Disintegration
• Competition among states
• Richelieu legacy

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The Nature of Politics II Liberalism

• Influence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Discourse on origins of inequality (1754)
• The Social Contract (1762)
• The Canoe/rowboat analogy (circa 2003)
• Neolibearlism
• Application to states
• Horizonal Disintegration
• The role of international organizations

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The Roles of Power and Justice Realism as an
emphasis on power

• Power-based perspective
• Darwinian Constructs
• State applications?
• Sovereignty Security?

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The Roles of power justiceLiberalism as an
emphasis on justice

• Cooperative and ethical standards
• Wilsonian Legacy
• Clinton v. Bush 41 (Tyrants/Trading)
• Internationalism security?

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Prospects for Competition and Cooperation
Realism Liberalsm
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Realism Competitive Future

• Realpolitik
• National interest Morgenthau
• Balance-of-power politics
• Peace through strength
• Defined goals interests

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Liberalism Cooperative Future

• Cooperative Venues
• New Organizational Paths
• New World Order Issues
• Enumerate
• New World Order order
• Classic v Neo-Liberalism
• Interdependence?
• On dit non au realpolitik!

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Assessing Reality Realism Liberalism

• What does history tell us?
• Politics, economics, society
• What is the future?
• Politics, economics, society