POL327Y5 Lecture Notes - Mutual Assured Destruction, Security Dilemma, Maxwell D. Taylor
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Policy is the output as the state is a black box . Liberal pluralist- set of institutions floating above society, through which societies compete or different groups compete in order to shape the outputs of policy. Some argue foreign policy is an extension of domestic policy. They see the state as a dependent variable, what the state does depends on the inputs of the various forces including groups, individuals etc. Second imagine- inspired by marxist two theories, tool of dominant classes, didn"t develop that theory very far in his writings, wrote in a non-democratic time. 21st century marx two different theories dependent variable, look at the forces acting upon the state which are the dominate classes. Instrumentalist: acts in interest of dominant elite of capitalist elites, by those that rise to top of state power and those that rise in top capitalist economy, they have similar economy, similar wants, and people.
