POLS10200 Lecture 6: Realist-Liberal Debate
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Rosato (husband) combines all counters to ^ from realism in his article, reading for today: mearsheimer, false promise a. b. c. if true that institutions can push states away from war and push for peace, then realism overstated prospects for conflict and war in international world i. So realism needed to counter institutionalism"s claims institutions only matter at margins. wants to stress that they are minimal effective on state behavior. only reflect the balance of power. institutions will do what the most powerful members tells them to do. i. ex: un only as powerful as their most powerful member institutions cannot push strong states to do what they don"t want to do. cannot prevent anything. can help states cooperate at the margin of international politics, but have very little effect on state behavior. i. institutions reflect distribution of power: ex: us ussr example: institution formed to balance power against germany. e.
