POLS 262 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Italian Fascism, Geopolitics
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The institution that creates peace is the state itself. Argue that if we can elevate institutional cooperation to a level as high as a stat, then there is no reason that we cant bring it to a higher level like that of the. One of the first core international texts of international relations. His conclusions in these books do not follow his marxian roots. If the european powers go to war with each other again, due to their colonial outreach, what would begin as a european war could easily become a world war; this idea scares carr immensely. One of the most dangerous conditions in europe is the concept of idealism; this liberal notion that we can institutionalize peace. Carr doesn"t call them idealist; he labels them utopians: their idealism is unrealistic ; he is dissing them in a negative way. Words being chosen to use can often involve connotations. Carr says the opposite of utopianism is realism.