POL3146 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Robert Keohane, Perpetual Peace, Neoliberalism
3 Apr 2016
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Warming relaionship with the government in russia. What is the moivaion for re-opening the embassy in tehran and opening channels with. Anarchic world: states are kind of like billiard balls bouncing of one another (waltz) Main focus of analysis is all about states. Waltz: structures shape and shove; they do not determine the acions of state. States seek to maximize their power and interests. The structure of global poliics has an inluence but it really is states that determine the course of acion. Waltz says there nothing from a country telling the un to fuck of. Realist would order shit half emptybig ol bummer. In a world where you can"t trust anyone you don"t want to be interdependent as opposed to the liberals. You can never have enough power, who is going to be lined up against me later. Don"t believe in schemes that go for perpetual peace. Best you can hope for is that people choose the lesser evil.
