INTS10001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Robert Gilpin, Hegemony, Win-Win Game
28 Jul 2018
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A state-centric view of the world and preoccupation with power. Anarchic system of states leads to self-help and the pursuit of power. Order and stability; morality has no place in relations between states. Politics as arena of conflict; scepticism towards the ideas of political or moral progress relative gains (zero-sum game) rather than absolute gains (positive sum game) guide state decision making. Augustine (354-330 ad), machiavelli (1469-1527), hobbes (1588-1679), rousseau (1712-1778), clausewitz (1780-1881), nietzsche (1844-1900), weber (1964-1920) Idea of a tradition of thought a powerful move in intellectual debates. 1920s 1930s - the first great debate" perennial realist wisdom wins over utopian liberal idealists. Tradition constructed first great debate" did not happen acc. to the stereotypes later created by textbooks. Thucydides, the history of the peloponnesian war (431 bc) Thucydides saw the drive to power and the will to dominate as universal or.
