POLS 2940 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Kenneth Waltz, Liberal Democracy, Immanuel Kant
23 Sep 2016
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The state is always the subject of realism. The only way to secure the state is through military strength. The international system is built by men who are crude, violent and self-interested. The international system is anarchic (no overarching control) when it is based on the constant possibility of war. There is no single state/government that can force another state to do something o something to make states do things. If we attempted to create something like this, it would still require. There has always been a war somewhere at some time. Kenneth waltz: most famous and influential structural (neo) realist man, The state, war: levels of analysis: man, state, war, man, the state and war/international system. Men are inherently violent and that most men were generally weak. We are an inherently violent species war is inevitable because of who we are. The driving force behind conflict between states is dictated by the system in which they operate.
