POLB80H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 0: Security Studies, Atlantic Charter, Eurocentrism
12 Dec 2017
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The rootedness of the current conflict in centuries of often violent interaction between north and. In modern history those powers are overwhelmingly located in europe and the west. Eurocentrism is therefore intrinsic to the way in which realism is constructed in international. Relations (ir). 15: the great antagonists of realism, the liberals, seek to regulate conflict and alleviate its humanitarian consequences through a turn to domestic and international institutions and norms. International institutions such as the league of nations, the united nations and the nuclear non- proliferation regime are largely the product of interstate diplomacy dominated by western great powers. 16. Nuclear weapons: the claim to rational decision-making is frequently used by great powers to justify the possession of nuclear weapons. Conversely, the purported lack of rationality on the part of other states, particularly revolutionary regimes like cuba or iran, is routinely invoked to explain why they cannot be trusted with nuclear weapons. 58.
