Political Science 1020E Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Nuclear Arms Race, List Of States With Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Proliferation
18 Apr 2016
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International security: conditions in which the mutual survival and safety of states is secured through measures taken to prevent or punish aggression, usually within a rule- governed international order. Realist approach: offers an account of international politics that is realistic- it is hard headed and as, ip is about power and self-interests realists see it, devoid of wishful thinking and deluded moralizing. Liberal approach: offers an optimistic vision of ip, based on a belief in human rationality and moral, believe that the principle of balance or harmony operates in all forms of social goodness interaction. War has been seen as an instrument of state policy, a means through which states gained ascendancy over one another, or sought to resist other states" bid ascendancy. New" wars tend to be civil wars rather than inter-state wars. Civil wars are common in the postcolonial world.
