PACS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 90: Political Philosophy, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Negotiation
13 Oct 2016
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Popular images of human nature 6: violence as a function of innate human aggression 7. Early political theory 10: assessing innate aggression explanations for violence 10. Situational and environmental explanations for aggressive behaviour 10: the frustration-aggression hypothesis 11, conditioning and socialization 12, enemy images and self-fulfilling prophecies 13. Romanticization of war 13: alienation and desensitization 14. 1. 3 the power politics paradigm 14. International politics as a zero-sum game 15. Basic assumptions about conflict, violence, and peace 16: key tenets of the power politics paradigm 16, scarcity and competition 16, preeminence of the nation-state 16. Absence of the universal human values 17. Infeasibility of world government 17: preeminence of national interest 17. 1: broader implications of these assumptions 18. Perspectives on insecurity and war 18: types of war 18, war according to power politics 18. Alliances 20: nuclear deterrence and mutually assured destruction (m. a. d. )
