POLSCI 2I03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Security Dilemma, Warsaw Pact, Nationstates
25 Oct 2017
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After ww2, self-identified realist scholars rose in the emergent in ir. Realists argues that idealists search to find the cone of the diesease of warresulted in their ignoring the role of pwr. Realism thought foreign policy officials to focus on interests rather than an ideology, seek peace then strength, recognize great power can exist even if difference in values/ attitudes. War; his big idea was that intl. politics is driven by an endless struggle, in which justice, law, and society have no place. Machiavelli; the prince; big idea was a a vision of an ult. Leader accepting and adapting to certain circumastances with power and politics. Hobbes; leviathan; humans have a lust for pwr. Rousseau; state of war; not human nature but the anarchichal system that foster zealous, insecurity. Argues that the state itself represe(cid:374)ts a (cid:373)oral for(cid:272)e, for it(cid:859)s the e(cid:454)iste(cid:374)(cid:272)e of the state. (cid:858)it tells the states(cid:373)a(cid:374) (cid:449)hat he (cid:373)ust do to preser(cid:448)e the health/stre(cid:374)gth of the state(cid:859)
