David Bearce

Sarah Gavison(104 and 110)

Ben Montoya(106)

Jia Chen (101 and 105)

Doug Snyder(102 and 107)

Kim Lee Tuxhorn(109 and 111)

Leslie Ochreiter(103 and 108)

Please sit in the same general section of Math 100 as your Teaching Assistant

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Lecture Outline for 8/29

Syllabus available at: http://spot.colorado.edu/~dabe1889/teaching.html

• Actors in IA

• Levels of Analysis

• Long Term Trends in IA

1. Increase in the number of nation-states

2.. Proliferation of IGOs

3. Economic Globalization

Actors in International Affairs

Primary actor is the nation-state (or country), which includes

1) a government (or state) presiding over

2) a population (or nation) within

3) a well-defined territory.

Why primary? Concept of sovereignty

Can you think of countries that lack one or more of the attributes listed above?

Other Actors in International Affairs

Important non-state actors include:

IGOs

NGOs

MNCs

Where do terrorist groups fit into the state/non-state actor schema?

Levels of Analysis

1. Global

2. Interstate/International

3. Domestic

4. Individual

How do Levels of Analysis Matter?

Dependent Variable vs. Independent Variable (event to be explained) (factor that does the explaining)

All dependent variables in IA have an international dimension, but not necessarily the independent variable.

The Level of Analysis helps identify different independent variables

Example: Explaining the End of the Cold War

Global – telecommunications revolution

Interstate – US/USSR arms race

Domestic – Soviet’s economic modernization

Can you think of an individual level explanation for the end of the Cold War?

Long-Term Trends in International Affairs

1. An increase in the number of nation-states

Why? DecolonizationState Disintegration

Is this a good or bad development?

2. Proliferation of IGOs (see Figure 7.1 on p. 235 in G&P, 10th ed)

4 major global IGOs: United Nations, World Bank group, International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization

Many new regional IGOs: European UnionNAFTA,Mercosur (Southern Cone Common

Market)ASEANGulf Cooperation CouncilAfrican Union

Why this proliferation of IGOs?

3. Economic Globalization

Freer flow of goods, services, capital, and labor across national borders

Is this trend in tension with the first trend: proliferation of state actors?

If so, then what will prevail: open economic borders or well-defined nation-states?