GVPT 200 Chapter February 7: February 7th Readings

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Government and Politics
• Course: GVPT 200
• Professor: Calvert Jones

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International relations (feb. 7th, 2018: the impact of realism by e. h. carr, political sciences can never divorce themselves from the utopianism that true science lacks, realism represents the end of the utopian period of political science. Proper place. ": machiavelli, the two essential means for the conduct of foreign policy are power and deception. The supreme political value is independence, and the main responsibility of the ruler is to seek advantages and defend state interests against rivals: machiavelli assumed that the world is dangerous, but also opportune. Humans are civilized by the fear of death. ": there exists a dilemma however: instituting a sovereign state to escape the state of nature between individuals only creates a new one between the states. This is called the security dillema: there is no escape from the security dilemma because there is no forming a global government, hobbesian realism makes provision for international laws as well as military power.