POLSCI 3X03 Lecture Notes - Unification Of Germany, David Lloyd George, Continental Army
11 Nov 2013
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It is the survival of agents that has been the dominant explanatory tool for understanding behavior. For much of the discipline the agent has meant sovereign states. Realism: security of the state, the quest for security of the state is what shapes and defines world order. Referent object: what is to be secure (realism: state) Gender the behavior of the state is to secure patriarch (e. g. ) Threat vs securitization: from organized state violence or from beyond the state (transnational groups and organizations, and environmental degradation) Milos was not content to be part of the athenian empire and wanted their freedom. Athens was unnerved by this and didn t sit well, and rejected their request for sovereignty. It is about the empire itself if we grant you independence and sovereignty, then we will also have other similar requests . Lesson: the strong do what they will, and weak will suffer what they must.
