POL 2103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Great Power, Unilateralism, Mutual Assured Destruction

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 2103
• Professor: De Larrinaga Miguel

Document Summary

Pol 2103b international relations and global politics. Ta groups chosen for group discussions starting next week. The collapse of the order, has nothing to do with polarity, the collapse of the order is explained by the characteristic of the structure of the society. For classical realism: there is no differentiation between national/domestic or international (apart from kind: russia, uk, germany, france) whether internal or external a system can collapse if its constructive structures are weak: Changes in identities and discourses are often the result of modernization, (religion in. Denmark and sweden result of a combination of modernity and history) Can"t just make a country become democratic (long process) Global war/hegemonic war is more often a consequence than a cause of such a transformation. This different understanding of cause and effect is important. Implications for the kinds of strategies classical realists envision as efficacious in maintaining or restoring order.