POLI 1501 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: American Exceptionalism, Security Dilemma, Arms Race
10 Oct 2016
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Nothing to stop you from using the military for offensive reasons: the only way to respond when you observe another state building up your military, everyone else will, spiraling arms race occur, example, anti ballistic missile system. We need ballistic misille weapons: both china and russia are opposed to the us defending itself, argument stems from the security dilemma, china and russia are nervous, and see growth of us technology as a threat to themselves. American exceptionalism and american foreign policy: realism is a theory that applies to all states (every major power, american exceptionalism is for explaining afp. The uniqueness of afp: american exceptionalism meaning varies, normative aspect. Is not ideology: ideology is an individual level characteristic: shared across a group, group characteristic, not individual, tends to be stable group characterstics are slower to change, because it is a group level characterstic, it shapes the action.
