| | Number sort to | 01.0m |
| | Class-Defined | Main Test9 |
| | Theory-name | Realism [ according to Morgenthau = Classical? |
| | Theory-Purpose | States engage in balancing power which is likely to produce |
| | stability. Effect is that Int'l system can produce stability in |
| | Note | 1.Political realism believes that politics, like society in |
| | general, is governed by objective laws that have their roots |
| | in human nature. 2.international politics -- concept of interest |
| | defined in terms of power. |
| | 3. Realism assumes that its key concept of interest |
| | defined as power is an objective category which is |
| | universally valid, but it does not endow that concept with a |
| | meaning that is fixed once and for all. |
| | 4. Realism maintains that universal moral principles cannot |
| | be applied to the actions of states in their abstract universal |
| | formulation, but that they must be filtered through the |
| | concrete circumstances of time and place. |
| | 5. Political realism refuses to identify the moral aspirations |
| | of a particular nation with the moral laws that govern the |
| | universe. |
| | 6. "difference" =political realist maintains the autonomy of |
| | the political sphere, as the economist, the lawyer, the |
| | moralist maintain theirs. Political realist asks: "How does this |
| | policy affect the power of the nation?" p16 = For only by |
| | deceiving himself about the nature of politics and the role he |
| | plays on the political scene is man able to live contentedly |
| | as a political animal with himself and his fellow men. |
| | Morgenthau,Brief Edition 1993 p.4-16 |
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| | Definition-power | Ability to coerce, ability to control others, ) 0 sum quality to |
| | power. Power is and end in itself. BOP = situation of |
| | System-Change- | support status quo or bipolar |
| | System-Change- | .. |
| | What-necesary- | Relies on objective national interests; relied on assumption |
| | of power, rationality a and balance of power. NAIC Keohane |
| | Limitation | Assumes states act like individuals with "will to power". |
| | Blames a small number of behavior traits for conflict while |
| | ignoring more benign aspects of human nature which point in |
| | the other direction. NAIC Keohane p.11 j |
| | |
| | Failure to explain varieties in warfare over time and space. |
| | If human nature is constant why shouldn't warfare be |
| | constant? NAIC Keohane p.11 |
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| | Separates the spheres of economics, religious-moral from |
| | politics. |
| | |
| | No theory of peaceful changes. Put whatever faith he had in |
| | diplomacy NAIC Keohane, p 203 |
| | |
| | failed to distinguish between power as a resource and power |
| | as ability to influence other's behavior. |
| | BOP = situation of equilibrium as well as any situation in |
| | which power struggles take place. double meaning lead to |
| | difficulties for Morgenthau |
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