PSCI 1100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Bandwagoning, Eurocentrism

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PSCI 1100
• Professor: Tamara Kotar

Document Summary

Individuals are organized in states, each of which acts in a unitary way in pursuit of its own national interests: power is primarily thought of in terms of material resources necessary to physically harm or coerce other states, states exist in an anarchic international system, characterized by the absence of an authoritative hierarchy, states" most important concern is to manage their insecurity, and they rely primarily on balancing the power of other states and deterrence to keep the international system intact. To overcome defects in society, education is imperative: another origin, nineteenth century liberalism, reformulated the enlightenment by adding a preference for democracy over aristocracy and for free trade over national economic self sufficiency, the basis of liberalism remains firmly embedded in the belief of the rationality of humans and in the unbridled optimism that through learning and education, humans can develop institutions to bring out their best characteristics.