PACS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Chronic Condition, Human Nature
28 Jan 2017
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Peace is maintained domestically through the state having a monopoly on the. 3b: basic assumptions and key principles of the power politics. Conflict and violence in the world is natural based on some inherent. Primary way to control the use of violence is by the means of the state state. Scarcity and competition ( = a chronic condition) not enough resources in. Hobbes (individual-level advances) human nature is power-hungry, Smith (collective aggressiveness) competition is a positive thing. Pre-eminence of the nation-state strong nation-state is the only basis for their boundaries to maintain peace and are the (cid:498)final arbiter(cid:499) in disputes + advance. Absence of universal human values assumed absence of universal human specific and created through political power (morality may pre-exist, but it"s not real assumed to have world peace you need to assert military power and threaten others. 6 key principles of the pp paradigm:* the world to satisfy everyone and those that we have are not evenly distributed,
