POLS 1160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Immanuel Kant
1 Sep 2016
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Rising number of democracies and the turbulence of democratic transitions. Highlights the cooperative potential of mature democracies, especially when working together through effective institutions, but also notes democracies" tendency to crusade against tyrannies and the propensity of emerging. Idealism democracies to collapse into violent ethnic turmoil. Liberals expect that democracies will not attack each other and will regard each other"s regimes as legitimate and nonthreatening. Instills pragmatic appreciation of the role of power but also warns that states will suffer if they overreach. Realists believe that policy must be based on positions of real strength , not on empty bravado or hopeful illusions about a world without conflict. Changing norms of sovereignty, human rights, and international justice, as well as the increased potency of religious ideas in politics. Stresses that a consensus on values must underpin any stable political order, yet it also recognizes that forging such a consensus often requires an ideological struggle with the potential for conflict.
