01:790:319 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: John Stuart Mill, Liberal International, Hard Power
17 Dec 2018
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Competing interpretations: forces students to question their own assumptions and think for themselves. John stuart mill on liberty you don"t understand your own argument unless you"ve heard efforts to refute it. Liberal international order: fundamentally about spreading democracy and capitalism; globalization is another term for this: both sides agree, liberal international order is desirable, spreading democracy and capitalism is good, argument is about the methods. Both arguments have fallen out of favor: critical of both arguments, waltz, leigh, mastanduno. I can"t critique this cause i don"t know what it is: one day he dislikes china and next day he is at marol ago. Schwedler response: there is a coherent foreign policy there: deal maker/pragmatism. Working on multiple fronts and needs china"s help with north korea. Improve cooperation with north korea: negotiation hard means pushing hard, maybe he is going to pull this off - nixon and reagan- did it even though everyone didn"t think they would, regan:
