101956 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Productive Forces, Immanuel Kant, Class Conflict
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State leaders are the most important decision makers, pursuing national interest. Large and small, powerful and weak are all competing for survival and. Nationalism is a dynamic force which reinforces the centrality of the nation- and manoeuvring in a advantage state world of competing states. Inclined to see progress where political, economic and social circumstances of people improve over time: realists stress the occurrence of war, liberalists try to find ways to transcend it. Immanuel kant: democracies tend not to fight each other, foresaw widening realm of peaceful relations among democracies, union of like-minded states band together to form a zone of peace. Transnationalism: tendency of groups within countries to build cooperative associations with groups in other countries. Interactions of individuals and groups across societies shape patterns of cooperation and conflict within global system: transnational organizations act as pressure groups seeking to alter state policies.
