POL 114 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: International Relations Theory, Offensive Realism, Liberal Internationalism
19 Sep 2016
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Ch 6 realism: realism has been the dominant theory of world politics since the beginning of academic international relations, outside the academy, realism has a much longer history in the work of classical political theorists such as thucydides, First, the state is the pre-eminent actor in world politics. Moreover, there are examples where states have preferred collective security systems, or forms of regional security communities, in preference to self-help. Ch 7 liberalism: liberalism is not favored in international relations, liberalism is a theory of both government within states and good governance between states and peoples worldwide. Enlightenment liberals believed that a latent cosmopolitan morality could be achieved through the exercise of reason and through the creation of constitutional states. For idealists, persuasion was more important than abstract moral reasoning: liberal thought at the end of the twentieth century became grounded in social scientific theories of state behavior.
