POL208Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Stephen D. Krasner, Hubris, Regime Theory
15 Sep 2017
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Thoma s hobbe s (1588-1679: lived during the english civil war, he wrote the leviathan, without someone in control (without a king to enforce the law or create order), we. Main purpose has gotten nothing to do with international relations. He writes about domestic politics, as he takes the king"s side would revert back to the state of nature. War of every man against every man . The life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short . He wrote it in the aftermath of a campaign in the war. They lost sight of the true purpose of war. War is the continuation of politics by other means. War can never be separated in this realm be measured and counted. Has other things you can not measure; psychological factors. Some think they are losing but are not: politics is as much an art as is it is science, did not completely reject ethics/morality.
