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• 2 theories of world politics

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• Which and what kind kind of approaches become increasingly influential?

  Social constructivism & explicitly normative approaches

• 2.1 realism

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• How did Realism start? 

  In response to 1919-1939 Idealism.

• Part of reason why realism still dominant? 

  It provides a manual for maximizing the interests of the state in a hostile environment

• What is raison d'etat and by whom used? 

  Thucydides, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseau

  Reason of state: ensure the security of the state = fundamental principle of international conduct

• What do realists/raison d'etat scholars mean by the dual moral standard? 

  1 for individual citizens of  a state, and a different one for the state in its external relations with other states. 

• 3 core elements in all variants of realism

  Statism, survival, self-help

• first priorty state leaders? 

  ensure the survival of their state. This is their core national interest and crucial herein is power (mostly defined in military strategic terms)

• principle of action when there is anarchy:

  self-help. Not relying on any other.

• 3 chronological types of realism

  Classical (Thucydides; Morgenthau; Machiavelli; Carr; Butterfield) > Human nature

  Structural (Waltz; Mearsheimer) > International system

  Neoclassical (Zakaria; Walt)

   

• What for realists is the condition for order and security? 

  A sovereign. Only after power has been organized, can community begin.