POL 2103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Human Nature, Feature Structure
23 Jul 2018
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Realism become the dominant theory in ir by the 1950s: remains powerful for the next couple decades. There are never permanent allies, there are only temporary allies that are used to achieve their current goals: ex: the rise of the cold war. Liberalism became more popular than realism in the 1970s. Dissatisfied with realism and wanted to challenge liberalism: realism becomes more popular by the 1980s. Ignored key impact of international system and its structure on states" behaviour. University of ottawa: different than other areas of politics = had its own structure. Levels of analysis, structure, and the international system. Specific leaders of certain states: human nature, war begins with individuals, ex: morgenthau and carr, state and society, type of regimes. Some types of gov"t are more likely to go to war than others: ex: democratic = less likely because the people have a say in what happens, social classes, marxists = working class across the world, bureaucratic politics.
