INTS10001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: South African Class 19C 4-8-2, Win-Win Game, Hedley Bull
28 Jul 2018
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A state-centric view of the world and preoccupation with power. Anarchic system of states leads to self-help and the pursuit of power. Order and stability; morality has no place in relations between states. Politics as arena of conflict; scepticism towards the ideas of political or moral progress. Relative gains (zero-sum game) rather than absolute gains (positive sum game) guide state decision making. Hobbes (1588-1679), rousseau (1712-1778), clausewitz (1780-1881), nietzsche (1844-1900), weber (1964-1920) Idea of a tradition of thought a powerful move in intellectual debates. 1920s 1930s - the first great debate" perennial realist wisdom wins over utopian liberal idealists. Tradition constructed first great debate" did not happen acc. to the stereotypes later created by textbooks. Melians: the standard of justice depends on the equality of power to compel and that in fact the strong do what they have the power to do and the weak accept what they have to accept " (melian dialogue)
