POLS 261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mutual Assured Destruction, Liberal Feminism, Democratic Peace Theory
27 Aug 2016
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Blogs: duck of minerva, monkey cage, saideman"s semi-spew, arms control wonk, dan drezner in foreign policy, stephen walt in foreign policy. How different levels of analysis interact: domestic level of politics is important to understand international relations in that system, individual level of analysis presidents, heads of state psychological or personality traits. Thinkers (founding fathers of politics: hans morgenthau. Nuclear strategist at rand corporation: henry kissinger. World without nuclear weapons: albert wohlstetter. Argued in favour for doctrine of mutually assured destruction. As many nuclear weapons of adversary: thomas schelling. Realism: most famous realists: stephen walt and john marisheimer, attention to norms paid only when conserve vital interests, power. Disregard international rules having vital interest on state outcomes. How to get states to follow international rules: look at structure of international system. Realism: anarchy: focuses on power, security, state interests, assumptions. Cycles between peace and war, but war will always occur: states have not surrendered any power to overarching authority.
