POG 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Jeremy Bentham, Siege Of Melos, Social Progress

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POG 225
• Professor: Miriam Anderson

Document Summary

Pog 225 global governance jan 29th, 2015. Chapter 6 and 7 liberalism & realism. *2 of the most dominant theories and oldest* A lens through which you view the world. A set of generalization principles that have descriptive, explanatory, and predictive value allowing us to generate hypotheses, explanations, and predictions about world politics . Categories of analysis: unit of analysis/actors, nature of international relations, principle feature of the international system ****** exam question (table with theories) The strong do what they will; the weak do what the must (thucydides) The dominant lead and the weak, follow. If you want peace, prepare for way (machiavelli) Deterrence assuring that your neighbor is going to attack you, making sure that you can defend your nation. Life in the state of nature is nasty, brutish and short (hobbes) Without a society, time is spent mainly by surviving. There are no institutions available for aid purposes. (anarchical system)