ECH 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Neoclassical Realism, Rationality, Rational Agent

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Conflict Studies and Human Rights
• Course: ECH 1100
• Professor: Jean- Francois Ratelle

Document Summary

If it"s the nature of human, they can"t" be mitigated, they have to be mitigated through power. Liberalism believes human beings are fundamentally good, we are not driven by the egoistic world of maintaining our own survival. 1920-30- versailles and league of nations, ppl believed if we created supernatural org, we should be able to mitigate barbaric wars (chemical wars) Focuses on the egoistic human nature based on thomas hobbs. Focuses on the contexts of the anarchical structure in which state are living affect their behaviour. They are pessimistic about the nature we live in. We should understand civil society and the state at the same time. All forms of realism agree on the anarchical relations of world politics. Realism is looking at politics as a struggle for power. Peace is seen as an absence of conflict in for a moment. States are egoistic and want to maintain their own power and survival.