POLI 244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 54: Rand Corporation, Cuban Missile Crisis, Social Movement Theory
12 Mar 2016
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Anarchy is what states make of it: the social construction of power politics. Anarchy and power politics classical realists (hobbes, niebuhr, morgenthau): egoism and power politics from human nature structural realists/neorealist: emphasize anarchy: different interpretations of anarchy"s casual powers. Waltz: anarchy as a condition of possibility for or permissive cause of war, Similar structural positions are different for every state, the distribution of power affects the states calculations, based on understandings and expectations: the distribution of knowledge. Competitive system of interactions prone to security dilemmas in which efforts of actors to enhance their security unilaterally threatens the security of the others distrust. Three institutional transformations of identity and security interest: Hobbesian: cooperation for joint gain is extremely difficult in this context, lacking trust, shirt time, life is nasty. Weakness of liberalism and constructivists: unwillingness to transcend at the systemic theory, the individualist assumption that identities and interests are exogenously given. Taking stock: the constructivist research program in international relations and.
