POL208Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Arms Race, Robert Keohane, Zombieland
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Hobbes: the anarchy=the state of nature (domestic analogy) the sate of nature: A war of every man against every man . Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short ex: zombieland ( lec 3) anarchy: International: anarchic, still state of nature anarchy not chaos!!! : zombieland, still rules in order to survive =order. Order/violence (doesn"t not exist all the time, but potential) Survival; self-help; self interest; constant potential for violence; life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short . Very limited potential for cooperation-unstable equilibrium fear of defection. Survival and self-interest are moral under anarchy, right to survive! These rights don"t exist in ir, because of the absence of the leviathan. The politics of reality politics based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations. It doesn"t matter if a cat is black or whit, so long as it catches mice (deng.
