PSCI 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Nationstates, Carl Von Clausewitz, Gross Domestic Product
22 Jan 2018
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World politics-week 3: realism: walking dead, societal collapse. Useful for a given situation: realist school of politics, theucetes, machiavelli. Political machinations: tricky and clever, hobbs. State of nature: absence in politics, war against all against all, no fundamental human progress, carl von clausewitz. When states can accomplish war is the way to go: morgenthau. Should look out for their own citizens (presidents: kenneth waltz. Locates causes of international politics in the traits of humans in general or of particular individuals: state: Locates causes of international politics the characteristics of particular nation-states: system: Locates causes of international politics the characteristics of a particular international system: realism, a unromantic portrayal of politics, how does politics actually work, concerned how it actually work rather how it should be, human nature. Humans are egoistic/self interested and domineering: the international system: Human nature unconstrained, so violence is always possible. This is because they monopolize force, and so they have military power.
