REALISM Flashcards
lib realism
Ideas are greater than material capabilities
Neoclaossicla Realism
Defensive Realism
Reason of state
Friedrich Meinecke: What a state must do to maintain its interest and how to maintain in a life-threatening power
Int’lpol as a struggle for power who
Thucydides Peneloppnesian war
Machiavelli
The state must change their policies accordingly principles»> power
Hobbes
Leviathan Lust for power
NOt human nature but an anarchical society
Rousseau State of War
Dual Moral standard
Two policies of domestic and International but realism is not absolutely immoral as the state is itself an idea of having a good pol power
3 REALISM POINT
SELF HELP, statism, survival
Self Help
increase military capabilities
Statism
Legitimacy of state
Survival
Tactics to survive in an anarchical society
Pol. by-laws human through the concept power
Classical REALISM HANS MORGENTHAU
Structural Realism/ neorealism
Kenneth Waltz Mearsheimer In order ofor balance of power state should create coalition
Morgenthau view
Believed in human nature power maintain through display
Waltz view
anarchy interstate relation to keep eevrybody check
Mearsheimer view
offensive realism all state wnats self help and thus maximises their power bc don’t know intention of other state
Neoclassical realism
that state make their interest through the perspective of the leader the behavior depends upon the leader
GIDEON ROSE VIEw
that state make their interest through the perspective of the leader the behavior depends upon the leader
Randall Schweller
Diff between the security maximisnf and power maximisinf from time to time not fixed like hermany in 1930s
First meeting when
woodrow wilson aberystwyth
liberal realism
ideas»_space;» material capabilities
Post structural relaims
mix of both power and security maximisers
