POL 2103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: World Trade Organization, Nikita Khrushchev, Counterforce
9 Oct 2017
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Pol2103 l 2 realism & cold war. As it heralded the post world war ii. In coburg, a small town in central germany. Morgenthau observed that nations have interests which are furthered through the use of power to accumulate more power (military, economic and political alliances) to further new interests (regionalization, globalization). Morgenthau saw clearly that mass communication is an essential element of foreign policy for a democracy or even a totalitarian state. Morgenthau reconciled universal principles (human rights) with a recalcitrant reality (national sovereignty) by representing their relationship as a dialectical tension. Politics, like society in general, is governed by objective laws that have their roots in human nature which is unchanging: therefore it is possible to develop a rational theory that reflects these objective laws. The main signpost that helps political realism to find its way through the landscape of international politics is the concept of interest defined in terms of power.
