POL208Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: E. H. Carr, Power Politics, Hedonism
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What is the most important thing to understand ir. Realism: realist a team, hobbes, etc, the most famous of paradigm in ir. Ideals nice to argue over dinner but no for foreign police: power politics actors following there self interests, harsh and cold world and these are the rules of game according. Realism: one of the paradigms: to get realism need to go back in time, people like eh carr and bismarck came up with idea because of other influences and were going to look at those other influences. Aka what did the state of nature look like. In state of nature there was no cities, men it was nature. If you find food and someone else is hungry they will attack you, you cant afford to sleep cause others will kill you, other will take your resources to survive. If i need to protect my self i may violate your survival.
