POL 2103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Kenneth Waltz, Liberal Democracy, Human Nature
23 Jul 2018
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Individual: human nature, realists, decision-making processes; individual leaders, state/social forces, social classes, marxism, bureaucratic agencies within gov"t, breaking up the black box of the gov"t, regime type (democratic, authoritarian, etc. ) International system: anarchy is the defining cause of war, neo-realists and neo-liberalists. Led to a lot of confusion in the literature of war. University of ottawa: presupposes human tendency to live in separate communities, the fact that humans live in different societies is part of conditions that lead to war. Actors understand what they"re doing: understand themselves to be fighting on behalf of one society vs. another/others, self-consciousness of fighting for a particular group, know that they are engaged in war. Unique to humans: only species w/ social self-understanding and capacity for organized inter-group killings, only beings that understand that they are fighting for society as a whole. Deterrence: try to dissuade opponent from aggression by telling them:
