POL208Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Marxism–Leninism, Structural Marxism, Social Class

• School: UTM
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL208Y5
• Professor: Spyridon Kotsovilis

Document Summary

Alliances formed based on preventing a single state from dominating. The joining/adding of distant territory and its inhabitants to an empire. Settling of people from the home country among indigenous people of a distant territory. The advent (beginning) of nation states at the expenses of empires. In order to survive, humans who are selfish by nature seek to dominate which creates competition for power. Neo realist: structural: states seek security within the system (structure) anarchic. Offensive states seek to maximize power. Defensive states seek to maximize security. Neo classical: governments seek to maximize utility. Will seek to maximize power, security, utility to survive. Sovereignty authority within a territory (state: power: (cid:862)ma(cid:374)(cid:859)s (cid:272)o(cid:374)trol o(cid:448)er the (cid:373)i(cid:374)ds a(cid:374)d a(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s of other (cid:373)e(cid:374)(cid:863) (cid:894)morge(cid:374)thau(cid:895) (cid:862)a(cid:271)ilit(cid:455) to affe(cid:272)t others (cid:373)ore tha(cid:374) the(cid:455) (cid:272)a(cid:374) affe(cid:272)t (cid:455)ou(cid:863) (cid:894)waltz(cid:895) The u. s. in early post cold war period: two dominant powers bipolar. The u. s. & soviet union superpowers during the cold war: three or more great powers multipolar.