PS 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: World View, Henry Kissinger
8 Sep 2017
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Theories of ir: paradigm comprehensive framework for the identification of the variables about which the theory is to be developed, world view. Wanted lots of norms of conduct (rules of war) Measure events against international law: major thinkers kant, woodrow wilson. Humans are naturally aggressive in nature (we are all hitlers, we just don"t have the power or presence to act upon that) View of anarchy (lack of higher authority: bad; very conflictual; states fighting to gain power. States are sovereign but not equal: power. Unitary actor (controversial: states speak with one voice. Rational actors (also very controversial: rational here means states have goals, and they pursue those goals to the best of their ability . Zero-sum competition: the more i get, the less you get. Brutal fighting italians used mustard gas. Italy and abyssinia members of league of nations. Idealist protect abyssinia: realist do nothing.
