文档介绍：★ The use of national interests as a cornerstone of foreign policy
is a key element of the road more traveled by in the world politics.
Lecture 3 State Level Study, National Interests
State
Nation
State Level Study
Interests
National Interests
Pro and Con
state A political actor that has sovereignty and a number of characteristics, including territory, anization and recognition.
nation A group of culturally and historically similar people who feel munal bond and who feel they should govern themselves to at least some degree with political identity.
State Level Study An analytical approach that emphasizes the importance of the impact of world conditions (economics, technology, power relationship, and so forth) on the actions of states and other international actors.
National Interests
National interests is paramount, the fundamental
interests that a state’s foreign
policy is geared to achieve.
Include:
Nation’s physical survival
Nation’s economic well-being
Nation’s self-determination
Pro:
Con:
We live in a Darwinian political world. The weak are the prey of the strong — law of jungle, survival of the fittest.
Subjective;there is no such a thing as an objective national interests.
Social heterogeneity makes mon interest im