INTLSTD 101 Lecture Notes - Manuel De Oliveira, Peacebuilding, Common External Tariff
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People need to submit to a higher authority and be part of a whole. Thomas hobbes- strong central gov, a contract, where people relinquish violence to state. No ideology, place in world is immune to conflict. Diplomacy, sanctions, war, mobilization of international shame, benefits. Diplomacy first option, other options used when diplomacy fails. War- ultimate tool of ir, un permits war when goal is to return world to peace. Shame- naming behavior, identifying as violations, social movements. Benefits- get to join eu if change behavior. Realism- focus on states and power, thucydides, machiavelli, morgenthau, anarchy. Believe states are power-seeking entities, self-interested, all to enhance chance. Political perspectives: of survival to cooperate bc war is so destructive that material interests. General assembly- heart of organization (193 members, 1 country 1 vote) Since no higher authority, see world as anarchy, alliances likely to be temporary. Agree that states are self-interested, rational actors, but it"s in states" interests.
