POLS 2940 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Collective Security, Liberal Democracy, Democratic Peace Theory
11 Nov 2015
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Government/ sovereign - the institution/person who controls the state covering a population, which is distributed throughout the territory. Coercive power (the power to make someone do what they otherwise would not because you have overwhelming physical force), exercised by the state. The power of legitimacy (the power that the state has the right to exercise under the law or their right) Types of control that the state utilizes : coercive power, power as the circulation of social and moral truth, the power to construct legislation. Realists consider anarchy to be the result of war (war will be inevitable- to defend ourselves from threats) Realists say that from an international perspective, war/anarchy system is inevitable. Democratic peace theory - democratic nations don"t go to war together, they should enhance each other. This is not so much a theory, but a correlation. Liberalism emerged from the first world war. First world war was perceived as a series or mistakes.
