POL208Y5 Lecture Notes - Kenneth Waltz, Putting-Out System, World Politics
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Oct. 1 - levels of analysis; realist views. Patterns of outcomes as shaped by the structure of the system. Which systems are more prone to being stable. Basic = what makes up international system = anarchy = no government. Idea: international system does not have overarching power that can enforce its will on other states. In these conditions, live in fear and solidarity that is brutal: lacking a central power => state of nature = situation where men live without securities, notion: reply upon one"s own strength, leviathan. Government that forms this power that can instill order into chaos: discovered this is true for the domestic system. States can defend their own borders and territory = no central power to tell it what to do. Domestic realm where there is control = hierarchy. World of relations between states = state of war => constant struggle to protect themselves, maintain sovereignty. Would organization but its members are states.
