POLI 244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hans Morgenthau, Cardinal Virtues, Quasi

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 244
• Professor: Daniel Douek

Document Summary

Internaional relaions and human nature through the ages. The domesic populaion (opinions can shape foreign policy especially in democracy) Protect ciizens from each other (protect from groups within the state borders) The state has the monopoly over the legiimate use of force . Whatever else the state may do or role the state may have, the state is the one that is able to deploy violence with the approval of their ciizens. State is the force in our lives that can deploy violence most efecively. Rally around the lag e. g. going to war gives people a common civic idenity canada strengthened civic idenity ater joining ww1. 16th century italy was his ime patches of diferent ciies and states and they were oten at war with each other. Advised rulers of florence, but they lost at war to pope julius ii.