POLI 205 Study Guide - Peloponnesian War, Suicide Attack, Nationstates

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How to measure power: gain, safety, glory, influence, control, money, balance of power, comparing capabilities. Rationality: realism, means that you apply to meet your goal. This is how you know if someone is rational or not. Suicide bomber or someone who is looking for money, if you are able to reach your goal doing what you are doing, you are being rational: rationality is an absolute concept. The means are to be judged, not the purpose. Peloponnesian war: (beginning of theoretical approaches: realism: claims to be the oldest theory there is because it goes back. 1431 bc (when war actually started): want to be feared and not have everyone walk over you. The life of man [is] solitary, poor, nasty: hobbes, philosopher leviathan brutish, and short and the struggle for power is a war of every man against every man , rational choice theory is popular among realists. It is about survival of self-help and anarchy.

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