INTL ST 14 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Environmental Policy, Democratic Peace Theory, Mutual Assured Destruction
26 May 2016
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Fundamental value in the foreign policy of states secured by a variety of tools of statecraft including military actions, diplomacy, economic resources and international agreements and alliances. Extend the definition of security to include economic, political, societal and environmental policy areas. Stresses noncompetitive approaches and cooperative approaches through which states can achieve security. Views the international system as a brutal arena in which states must seek their own security at the expense of others. States are less concerned with whether everyone benefits and more concerned about whether someone may benefit more than someone else. States try to gain the most power and influence within the international system. Argue that international institutions are much more important in helping achieve cooperation and stability in the international system. Group of states for whom war has disappeared as a means of resolving disputes although they may use war for opponents outside the security community.
