POLI 244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Security Dilemma, Perpetual Peace, Economic Liberalism
20 Dec 2012
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The ends that the states pursue are flexible and can change. Foreign policy matters: more than simple survival, the security dilemma. Anarchy is not simply defined in terms of security dilemma. When the security dilemma exists, liberals know of it, but it is not the main part of the theory that liberals care about. Room for cooperation (due to different perception of anarchy) International institutions and organizations matter: non-state actors matter. Fairly straight-forward, less representative the state is, the greater for the potential for conflict both domestically and internationally. Within the state, the idea is that handful of individuals run the government, if it"s an aristocracy or a monarchy or a tyranny of some sort they will potentially abuse the population. Non-democratic forms of government do not rule for the common good source of potential conflict. They do not carry the cost of war.
