POL208Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Carl Von Clausewitz, Appeasement, Hans Morgenthau
19 Jun 2016
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Anarchic & evil: doesn"t matter if people are good. Different sources operate in different concepts and complicated: national character (morale), tech, military power, administration. Some types of power are fungible (easily moving between contexts: money while tanks are not. Andrew mack: paradox of unrealized power : not always the most powerful nation wins the war (us vs vietnam, some types of power not useful: canada"s softwood lumber vs us nuclear power. Some say this is inevitable, others say it is deliberately constructed. Believe theories are timeless and can be applied universally (laws) Pessimistic that the world hasn"t changed and won"t change: thucydides is just as relevant today. Realism: focuses on systemic levels and frequently ignore the other 2. Neo-realism: don"t look at any other levels. An inconsistency in which level to address & how these levels interact and integrate. Individual: actions of people: systematic: systems and large movements, unit: what the state will do.
