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Realism (Types of Realism (Neorealism/Structual Realism (Focus centrally…

- - - - Know your place in the status quo and use it
        
        Melian Dialogue
        
        Power Politics
      - Decisions have consquences
      - Inequality is natural
    - - State of Nature
        
        Life without government
        
        Without government; life of man nasty brutish and short
        
        Escape route from state of nature is the soverign state
        
        Move nasty brutish and short from humans to state system
        
        Easier this way
      - Domestic peace is main goal
        
        International peace will never happen
    - - Be a damn snake
        
        Fox
      - Only morality you have is to your citizens
        
        Main goal of leaders is for their people to be safe and happy
        
        The dependence of the people upon their ruler, specificially the wisdom of her foriegn policy
        
        Lion
  - - - Human lust for power
        
        Craving of power leads to wanting a secure political space
        
        Security beyond the state is impossible
    - - public vs private morality
    - - cannot be reduced to one variable
        
        economy (marxists)
        
        morals (liberals) :warning:
      - Realism is a doctrine that responds to the fact of a changing politcal reality
    - - Politics is the arena for the expression of those interests
        
        interests change
  - - - vs machiavelli
        
        machiavelli provided a political and ethical theory of IR :warning:
    - - yeah its there but we aint got nooooo focus on it
        
        What is required for our policy to be successful
        
        fuck that good and wrong shit
    - - How to use power intelligently in order to get our military adversary to do what we desire and not doing what we fear
        
        Armed force
        
        Brute Force
        
        taking what you want
        
        Coercion
        
        Making someone give it to you
        
        threat of damage that can make someone yield or comply
    - - scientific
  - - - expects states to behave in certain predictable ways
    - - Interacting units
      - Continuities and changes of the system
        
        International change occurs when great powers rise and fall
        
        when balance of power shifts accordingly
      - Structures more or less determine actions
        
        what is a structure :warning:
        
        ladder of power
        
        State leaders prisoners of the structure of the state system
        
        Vs Morgenthau
        
        state leaders are duty bound to do what the national interests want
    - - Mearshimer takes waltz's argument and uses it on the cold war
        
        bipolar systems > multipolar systems
        
        What if bipolar system was replaced by multipolar system?
        
        lmao it would suck
        
        was proved wrong
      - Mearsheimer
    - - Ay lemme be happy in my little pool and I wont mess with you
        
        States seek ruling their little section of the world
        
        Regional hegemony
        
        oceans big as hell
      - Waltz
    - - The only way that no one will mess with me is if I murk everyone
      - Mearsheimer
    - - offensive vs defensive
      - Offensive realism
- - - - Conflicts ultimately resolved by war
    - - Morgenthau
  - - - Machiavelli