POLS 2940 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Human Nature, Problem Solving

• School: York University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2940
• Professor: Prof. Monika Thakur

Document Summary

Vs critical theory more based on explaining the problem. Anarchy states have power in ir with no one to control them. Use any force necessary to gain power. Remain always in a state of war during war as well as peace. Cannot separate from the time period they come from. Utopian thinkers do not understand how politics is but how it ought to be. Machiavelli so do anything to maintain it. Morgenthau politics governed by human nature. States behave in a way for there own self interest. International conditions there are still rules that states follow.