CICS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: David Candy, Ethnic Nationalism, Franco-Prussian War
25 Aug 2016
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The problem: a world shaped by violent struggle: about 2. 5% of the world"s population perished during wwii. The problem in numbers: human costs: stalin, mao tse-tung, adolf hitler caused thousands of deaths. The solution: tools of international relations: diplomacy. A way to gain leverage when diplomacy fails ways to persuade someone and get back to the bargaining table; trade embargo. Unintended side effects: iraqi people suffered more than. Not always successful in accomplishing objective: putin thinks our sanctions against his regime won"t work. Ethical issues associated with using sanctions: war. Politics by other means, method of last resort: mobilization of international shame. Used by nongovernmental organizations, exposing bad behavior to shame people into altering their decisions: benefits. Morgenthau: states are self-interested, power-seeking actors who seek security. International politics is a self help system: liberalism. Violent behaviors result from bad institutions, not bad people. Claim that significant aspects of international relations are historically and socially constructed.
