IR 210gw Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Siege Of Melos, Hugo Grotius, Security Dilemma
6 Apr 2016
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Learning objectives: the irst r realism dominant view in ir foundations. Development of ir theory: waves of ir theory text page 71 or handout #28 in theory. Thucydides complex realist: complex realist, martin wright: classic. A man cannot think with full wisdom and with deep convictions regarding certain basics of ir without reviewing thucydides: must know who informs you. Realism thucydides: foundational view: power always wins over ethics. It will be enough for me, if these words of mine are judged useful by those who want to understand clearly the events which took place (photo) St. augustine (354-430 ad: after the sace of rome, became involved in secular politics, city of god, human kind is caught in a continuous cycle of sin, forgiveness, The ideal only found in heaven guilt, shame: life is fragile, precarious, this is known as christian pessimism, inluenced the thinking of *reinhold niebuhr*who inluenced.
