PEACEST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Global Peace Index

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Peace Studies
• Course: PEACEST 1A03
• Professor: Jorge Fabra- Zamora

Document Summary

Peace studies lecture 3: wednesday september 14th 2016. Goal: the notion of peace in a particular field, international realtions. Fields of research studies the relationships between political entities, states, empires, Idealism goal (unachievable) just a theory/ideal that does not exist. Liberalism(s) goal (achievable) through human institutions we can achieve this. Marxism social justice- revolution (when some form of revolution takes place peace will exist, when the workers finally take the resources and power back) When the people are freed from domination we will have peace. 44-5: ir theor(cid:455), (cid:272)o(cid:374)fli(cid:272)t theor(cid:455) a(cid:374)d, i(cid:374)deed, poli(cid:272)(cid:455) de(cid:271)ates ofte(cid:374) (cid:373)ake the (cid:373)istake of assu(cid:373)i(cid:374)g that the project is so apparent as to not require detailed explanation. This is part of the problem of peace: pea(cid:272)e (cid:373)ight (cid:271)e (cid:272)o(cid:374)te(cid:454)tualized (cid:373)ore su(cid:271)tl(cid:455), geographically, culturally, in terms of identity and the evolution of the previous socioeconomic polity.