Political 205 Classical Realism 3

Question 1

what are the 2 fields of international relations

Answer 1

1. high politics; international security
2. Low politics ; international political economy
   example Treaties like the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) would be considered high politics. global economic institutions like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, are examples of low politics.

Question 2

what is idealism and what shattered it

Answer 2

how things should be, not how they are
ex: shattered by rise of hitler and WW2

Question 3

what are the 3 characteristics of Realism

Answer 3

1. power matters
2. states are rationals actors
3. there is anarchy
   ex: the geopolitical rivalry between the United States and China in the contemporary world.

Question 4

what are the US government interest in International relations?

Answer 4

1. rise of US power globally which includes nuclear weapons
2. reaction against isolationism (due to pearl harbour)
3. Cold war beginning with Soviet Union

Question 5

what did the Melians agrue

Answer 5

1. they had the universal right to resit and be independent
2. that they held out for hope of assistance from Sparta
3. they were compelled to resit for their honour
4. they held out in vent of good fortune
   ex. Greece during the Greco-Persian Wars, particularly the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BCE, involved the city-state of Sparta and other Greek allies resisting the Persian Empire.

Question 6

What did the Athenians respond to the Melians

Answer 6

The strong do what they can and the weak do what they must
ex: Cold War, Peloponnesian War

Question 7

what are the 7 principles of realism according to Morgenthau’s

Answer 7

1.Politics is governed by objective laws rooted in human nature (law are objective)
2. Interest define in terms of power (power determines how u act)
3. National interest (states have interest power use to obtain that interest
4. Moral significance of political action
5.dont judge the behaviour of a sate in comparison to the morals laws of the universe
6. policies should be judge according to how they affect the power of the state
7. states re defensive positionalist, focus on relatives gains rather that absolute gains
ex: US during Cold War

Question 8

Weakness of Realism

Answer 8

Docent say how system change
ex: why did we move from Roman Imperial Sate to Middle Ages to Modern Period Europe