PLIR 3310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: European Migrant Crisis, Hugo Grotius, Emer De Vattel

• School: University of Virginia
• Department: Politics-International Relations
• Course: PLIR 3310
• Professor: Smith Michael

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Realism vs cosmopolitanism in international relations: an interim summary (1) Introduction: 3 basic questions for both schools a. Is moral behavior in international relations possible? a. i. a. ii. Kant says, yes clearly; so do other liberals/cosmopolitanism a. ii. 1. Human nature can be (or should be) governed by rational choices to maximize our happiness a. ii. 2. Either because it"s our duty (kant), or our interests (19th centuries) a. ii. 3. What in the international milieu makes it so different other political contexts or ordinary life: should there be a morality for international affairs, and, if so, of what kind, realism revisited a. b. c. It"s possible but it has to be a very special kind of morality. Classical -- thucydides, machiavelli, hobbes, treitschke a. i. a. ii. Modern -- weber, carr, niebuhr, morgenthau, kennan, aron, hoffman b. i. Weber: combination of personal cause plus consequential realism; places interests of the state as paramount. Structural or neo-realism - waltz and his students c. i. c. ii.