POLI 243 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Henry Kissinger, Democratic Peace Theory, Peter J. Katzenstein

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 243
• Professor: Mark Brawley

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Example: wwi, wwii - maybe the problem is germany and their culture. Some people said germans pay too much attention and obedience to the state. Easy to fall into notions that are stereotypes though. Wwi: woodrow wilson said the issue is regime type, democracies behave better than non-democracy. Said that the german people are fine, it"s the government that"s their problem. The problem started because germany had an emperor - germany wasn"t a democracy. Said that the war was empires (germany, austria-hungary, ottoman empire) v. democracies (us, britain, etc) Said they needed to change german foreign policy. Henry kissinger - during the cold war the us was a superpower that was happy with the way the international system was. The problem was that the us was always reacting, the communists were revolutionaries who wanted to change the world. Each side wanted to change the other way was working.