POLB80H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Great Power
2 Sep 2016
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Primary culprit that environmental relations were taken for granted. Saw environmental factors as a relative gain. Care about power and its implications: who has more/less power and which states wheel more/less power in relation to one other, power material, military strength. Countries vulnerable to climate change are afraid to have their power taken away: survival is endangered staring with island states. Cooperation can lead to absolute gains: does not believe in relative gains absolute gain. States are primary actors but not the only ones involved: has not focused extensively on the state i. e. ngos were also studied. Major challenger to realism in 70s: point of entry. Approach to knowledge and science: used to come from a religious perspective independent of a human bias. Not everyone puts in equal faith in science and knowledge. Power legitimate power (recognition) and institutional power: wider variety of power. Monteiro despite conventional wisdom, unipolarity is not peaceful. More likely to end up in conflict.
