PO231 Study Guide - Final Guide: Eurodac
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Power: ability of a state to protect its own security and impose its will on other states and actors, across history, state interests have changed and expanded, and power has taken on different forms: military, political and other, realism is an approach to international relations that focuses on state power among other things, machiavelli believes military force was most important form of power, zero sum and relative, one actors gain is by definition to the others loss physical, resources or capabilities. Self help system: the belief that no other states can be relied upon to help guarantee the state"s survival, realist worldview: how states act in the international system, kenneth waltz identifies two ways in which the structure of the international system limits cooperation, uncertainty about the others future intentions and actions, states don"t want to be dependent on others.
