POLS 2940 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Democratic Peace Theory, Human Nature, Good Governance
17 Nov 2017
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Review from last week: presumed and incorrect nexus between: sovereignty, territory and the state, only the state can exercise legitimate authority (force) realist theory. If there is a crisis of authority (people loose authority) the only option for the state is exercise coercive authority. Instrumental or coercive power: the power to make someone to do something, that they (cid:449)ould(cid:374)"t other(cid:449)ise do: 3 levels of analysis: (1) human nature (2) level of state (3) the international system, neo-realists understand international anarchy to be. Liberal theories of international relations: democratic peace theory: not a theory but more a correlation states do(cid:374)"t go to (cid:449)ar (cid:449)ith this theory. Liberal peace: emerged out of the first world war but developments of this can be found much greater than this, before 1914, there were country alliances, but they were secret. Job was to institutionalize collective security idea that every state recognized the security of others as its own concern.
