ECH 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Warsaw Pact, Stable Distribution, Statism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Conflict Studies and Human Rights
• Course: ECH 1100
• Professor: Jean- Francois Ratelle

Document Summary

Realism teaches foreign policy makers to focus more on interests rather than ideology. Great powers can coexist even if the opposing powers have different values and beliefs. The state must pursue power and its the duty of the state to be rational in taking the appropriate steps to preserve the life of the state in a ever hostile environment. The survival of the state can never be guaranteed under international organizations. The state is the principal actor and it needs to maintain its survival in a hazardous environment of international politics. Realists are skeptical or universal moral codes. Universal moral code: sacrificing one"s own interests in order to represent to a notion of ethical conduct. Dual moral standard; one moral standard for state individual and a different standard for the external relation actors in other states. Statism: state is the legitimate representative of the collective will of the ppl.