World_Politics

World Politics World Politics: Why is it useful to distinguish between varying levels of analysis when studying international affairs' One of the main things to consider when studying international affairs are the many parts that make up the whole. The parts being the individual level of analysis, state level of analysis, and global level of analysis. While each part carries its own distinction each one is a part of the other. But the usefulness of understanding the different levels becomes evident when filtering through the many perceptions of world reality so readily available. It would be difficult to explain the usefulness of the levels without first discovering how perceptions influence images of reality. As Charles Kegley and Eugene Wittkopf stated, “we all carry mental images of world politics - explicit or implicit, conscious or subconscious. But whatever our level of awareness, our images simplify reality by exaggerating some features of the real world while ignoring others.”1 This says to me that identifying the different levels bring somewhat of an organized hierarchy to the various images of reality, which would otherwise be to many individually to explore. Our personal reality determines our religious beliefs, morals, and our approach to other cultures. These many images make up the identifying levels of analysis that are defined in Kegley and Wittkopf’s “World Politics.”1 While it seems that perceptions world, politics, reality, levels, analysis, level, images, perceptions, both, while, war, usefulness, state, one, identify, each, whole, understanding, trends, terrorism, parts, parties, part, new, make, kegley, involved, individual, identifying, global, done, different, developed, carry, being, becomes, available