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IInternational Relations Final
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- 1UNSC Resolution 794Resolution to Send (UNITAF) into Somalia in August 1992
- 2Political RealismPolitical realism believes that politics, like society in general, is governed by objective laws that have their roots in human nature.
The main signpost of political realism is the concept of interest defined in terms of power, which infuses rational order into the subject matter of politics, and thus makes the theoretical understanding of politics possible. Political realism avoids concerns with the motives and ideology of statesmen. Political realism avoids reinterpreting reality to fit the policy. A good foreign policy minimizes risks and maximizes benefits.
Realism recognizes that the determining kind of interest varies depending on the political and cultural context in which foreign policy is made. It does not give "interest defined as power" a meaning that is fixed once and for all.
Political realism is aware of the moral significance of political action. It is also aware of the tension between the moral command and the requirements of successful political action. Realism maintains that universal moral principles must be filtered through the concrete circumstances of time and place, because they cannot be applied to the actions of states in their abstract universal formulation.
Political realism refuses to identify the moral aspirations of a particular nation with the moral laws that govern the universe.
The political realist maintains the autonomy of the political sphere; he asks "How does this policy affect the power and interests of the nation?" Political realism is based on a pluralistic conception of human nature. The political realist must show where the nation's interests differ from the moralistic and legalistic viewpoints. - 3Hans MorgenthauTraditional Realism
3 assumptions
1.International system is anarchy
2.States act out of security interest
3.States will act rationally - 4Bruce RussetLiberalism in International Relations Theory
- 5Kenneth Abbot"Why States Act Through Formal Institutional Organizations" Defending Institutionalism
- 6Michael Doyle"Liberalism and World Politics": Defending the Democratic Peace Theory
- 7Alexander Wendt"Constructing international Politics": Defending Constructionism
- 8Charles Glaser“Will China’s Rise Lead to War: Why Realism Does Not Mean Pessimism,”
Defensive Realism - 9Sebastian RosatoCritic of the Democratic Peace Theory:
" Democracies do not reliably externalize their domestic norms of conflict
resolution and do not trust or respect one another when their interests clash. - 10Michael Barnet and Raymond DuvallPower in International Politics, Define the four Faces of power, which are:
1. Coercive Power
2. Agenda Setting Power
3.Structural Power
4.Discursive or Productive Power - 11Edward SaidKnowing the Oriental
- 12Kenneth WaltzWhy Iran should get the bomb
- 13Yunxiang YanOf Hamburger and Social Space Consuming Mcdonalds in Beijing
- 14Jeff ChangIts a Hip Hop World
- 15Michael CoxEmpire by Denial: America denies being an empire because it doesn't expand through growing and expanding or literally conquering
- 16Ines ClaudCollective Legitimation: Constructivism
- 17Michael GlennonCompliance: Realism
- 18Gareth EvansThe Responsibility to Protect
- 19Edward C. LuckStayin Alive
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