POLI 105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Great Power, Asymmetric Warfare, Multilateralism
17 Mar 2017
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Realist perspecti(cid:448)es o(cid:374) today"s world: do(cid:373)i(cid:374)a(cid:374)ce, bala(cid:374)ce of po(cid:449)er, a(cid:374)d state i(cid:374)stitutio(cid:374)s. Identity: defines identities as nationalism or superstate europe: liberal: determines control of institutions, realist: relative power, american dominance, power transition realists, systemic: structural pressures, domestic: dominate ideologies. Individual: determine strategies of leaders: power balancing realists, stability versus hegemony, realist: desire to increase power, liberal: negotiations to preserve stability. Identity: destroys the terrorist enemy: force and diplomacy. Identity: weakens extremists: liberal: enables diplomacy, realist: use of force, realist: reduces the need for force. Identity: increases trust: liberal: use of diplomacy, wars of choice or necessity. Afghanistan, provide fertile conditions for the rise of terrorism. Individual: leaders reinforce ethnic differences, sovereignty, great power groups assorted informal groupings of the major economic and financial powers known as the g-7, g-8 and g-20, realist: great powers groups, liberal: manage igos. Identity: and constrain ngos seeking to alter domestic politics: foreign policy, bureaucratic politics. Interest groups: military-industrial complex, domestic politics, media.
