HREQ 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: International Monetary Fund, Wilsonianism, The Imperial Presidency

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 2010
• Professor: Paul Brienza

Document Summary

The united nations and the universal declaration of human rights. A common law to all members of this society or the idea of the rule of law. Legal equality for all citizens (kant, 99): the last and most important piece of the puzzle for kant was the developing an international collectivism: This would mean establishing a federation of peoples (kant, 102). Idea and practice of the balance of power: this idea is prevalent in realist and neo-realist understandings of the international order, balance of power: the idea that states can attain relative peace and security through a system of. Alliances and bloc formations are the preferred method of establishing peace and security. Advocates of the balance of power perspective claim that it is based on common sense and the instinct of self-preservation. Significant treaties: peace of westphalia (1648); treaty of utrecht (1713).