POL208Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Free Trade, Martha Finnemore, North American Free Trade Agreement
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The melian dialogue: the strong do what they have the power to do and the weak accept what they have to accept . It is does not give us the direction. In order to understand the direction, you must understand what the country wants. The actor defines the interest/ the interest defines the actor relationship between nature of the actor/ interest of the actor one defines the other. I cannot forecast to you the action of russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. It cannot be in accordance with the interest of the safety of. Russia that germany should plant itself upon the shores of the black sea, or that it should overrun the balkan states and subjugate the slavonic peoples of south eastern europe. That would be contrary to the history life-interests of russia.
