Presented BySHEIKH ABIR AHMED

NAZIA JALIL JERINSAYED FAHIM AKTAB ALI

BIR-16; Sec: B

LEVELS OF ANALYSIS

CONCEPTS Perspective that suggests possible explanation to ‘WHY’

questions.

Helps us to explain an incident with multiple explanations.

Types of ‘Levels of Analysis’Individual Level

Domestic Level

Interstate Level

Global Level

INDIVIDUAL LEVEL•  The individual level emphasizes the "great man in history“.

• Helps to explain how great leaders influence to make history.

DICK CHENEY KARL ROVE

DOMESTIC LEVELSOCIETY

• Dominant Culture

• Ethnic Make-up

• Religion

• Econ. Development

GOVERNMENT

• Type of Government (Dictatorship or Democracy)

• Organization (Presidential v. Parliamentary System)

• Stability of System

INTERSTATE LEVEL• Focuses on the interaction of the states themselves, without regard to their internal makeup or the particular individuals who lead them.• Pays attention to states relative power positions in the international system and the interactions (trade, for example)among them.• Traditionally the most important level of analysis.

GLOBAL LEVEL• Seeks to explain international outcomes in terms of global trends

and forces that transcend interactions of states themselves.

• The global level of analysis, a recent addition, draws attention especially to technological change and the global gap in wealth between the industrialized North and the poor South.