POLS 2880 Study Guide - Final Guide: Warsaw Pact, Bounded Rationality, Nuclear Warfare
8 Sep 2017
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Values and goals of states: security, security dilemma, military, offense vs defense, freedom, state and individual, welfare, standard of living, order/justice. Neo-realism: cold war is problem for realism, kenneth waltz saved realism in 70s and 80s, problem is that states operate in anarchic environment, leading to security dilemma, thinks bipolar system is solution. Liberalism: thomas jefferson, james madison, john stuart mill, john locke, adam. Institutionalizing peace and power under anarchy states and nonstate transnational actors. Fostering interstate (cid:272)ooperatio(cid:374) o(cid:374) the glo(cid:271)e"s shared economic, social and ecological problem. Power military preparedness, international organization, interdependence and deterrence and preemptive warfare democratization, arms control and diplomacy regimes. Power, prestige, and advantage (relative gains) over other states. Collective security, world order, law, integration, races, changes in international organizations polarity distribution of military capabilities. Preserve nuclear deterrence, avoid disarmament and super national organizations, protect state sovereignty, unilateralism. Expectation of cooperati and creation of a global community. Global interests (absolu gains), justice, peace, prosperity, liberty, moral.
