POLI 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Seven Military Classics, De Re Militari, International Political Economy
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Comparative politics: post-world war ii, often combined with ir the (a). International political economy (ipe) low politics (4). _war, rise and fall of the great powers, depressions, international institutions, ), the greek author of the histories which described the greco-persian wars (500-479 b. c. _non-western international relations theory: kautilya (arthasastra), the chinese seven. Military classics, or flavius vegetius renatus (de re militari). Machiavelli was typical of professional diplomats in his focus on power. _how things should be > how they are. _peacefully manifested as: pacifist idealism (as applied to education), legalism (imposing laws against war), (us president) wilsonianism: principles of self- determination and democracy. _the rise of hitler and ww2 shattered idealism. _example: kellogg-briand pact (aug 27, 1928) renounce war. E. h. carr, titled the twenty years crisis, 1939, debunk the idealistic paradigm. _the current principal paradigm in international relations the realist paradigm, and the desperation to explain what had happened, led to the adoption of the scientific method.
