POLS 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Liberal Internationalism, Security Dilemma, Statism
25 Sep 2018
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Fill up your car with gas? (gas could be from nigeria) Get some coffee (coffee beans could be from africa) "no arts; no letters; no society; and which is woes of all, continual dear, and danger of violet death: and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short" (hobbes, leviathan, chapter 12) In creating a sovereign who rules above everyone, you have an implication, you create a whole bunch of political communities, and then they all engage in creating these sovereign authorities. Sovereignty and the state of nature among states. Conflict and the cyclical nature of history (pessimistic) A states internal political philosophy shapes its foreign policy. Authoritarian states are more likely to go to war, so more wars will happen with more authorities states. If more state are liberal there will be more of a peaceful world.
