POLS 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Collective Security, Inside Out Music, Ernst Haas
22 Dec 2016
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How does liberalism differ from realism in terms of its actors, assumptions and focus/questions: rather than billiard balls, we have a world that looks like a cobweb; rather than states as black. Separate islands of theory each explaining some things but not others with the long-term goal of connecting them together within a more general theory of ir. Emphasis on the individual and on a limited state. Exemplified by writings of john locke (second treatise on government, 1689) human nature is characterized by reason and tolerance. In state of nature all people were equal and independent, and everyone had a natural right to defend his life, health, liberty, or possessions . The sole right to defend in the state of nature was not enough, so people established a civil society to resolve conflicts in a civil way with help from government in a state of society.
