Political Science 2231E Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Chanakya, Security Dilemma, Meddle
16 Dec 2017
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Ancient thinkers: note: these thinkers, according to realists, are the first realists, but there is considerable disagreement about this. Mainly argue that they have a claim to tradition: names: Creation and control over territory by a single ruler. Sun-tzu: winning wars by strategy: not fighting, pre-fighting, fighting only when victory is assured. Kingdoms & city-states & empires: writings directed at leaders [mirror, military officials, act to pursue power, machiavelli: Rulers must always do what is in the best interest of the state, and to do otherwise is immoral: immorality is not about good or bad, but what is the states interest. To act to create a world which ought to be" (human proclivities/normative) would lead to disaster. Kautilya & sun-tzu = kingdoms & empires: machiavelli = early modern state, hobbes = modern state, not a conception of the global" in contemporary terms, but thinking in broader terms (we might term.
