POLS 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Santa Barbara City College
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Realism theory, been around a long time. These ideas allow you to understand/evaluate the actions of other states before they act. Policies are chosen if they are thought to yield better results. An attempt to help leaders understand how to interact with other. This is how the world works, this is how you should act within it. Normative theory how things ought to operate. Theory of realism why states act. Tried to apply academic interests to us foreign policy. Concerned that the us foreign policy was guided by moral principles following wwii. These approaches fundamentally misunderstood how other states act/function. Failure of league of nations is explained by unrealistic ideals such. How people/states behave is influenced by the system they exist in. If you change the structure of the market, the behavior of the corporation will change; they will adapt to the market. No central government, natural structure, no police, etc
