POL 2103 Lecture Notes - Cherry Picking, Politics Among Nations, Mutual Assured Destruction

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Pol 2103 e - intro to international relations & global politics - joseph roman - 03 jan. 13. E. h. carr"s the twenty years" crisis reacts to the paris peace conference. He thinks the people at the conference were responsible for ww2, b/c they were idealists. They looking how the world ought to be, not what it actually is. He says that idealists forget about: the role of power in ir, the inherent inability of humans to be good all the time, , states having unlike interests. Basically, a question of what is (realists) vs. what ought to be (idealists) All types of realism share these assumptions: statism. States are the only legit actors in international affairs which can represent the collective will, only actors that matter: survival. Anarchy is inherent, there is no true order in ir, absence of central authority. Thus, you gotta look out for yourself, the state, it"s national interest: self-help.

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