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Chapter 2: Realism
Is international anarchy the permissive cause of war?
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Learning aims:
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Last week: Introduction
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(Neo) Realism Flashcard
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Realism vs. Neorealism
(table 2.1)
Realism
Neorealism
Interest of States
Survival
Survival
How to achieve
survival
Increase power
because world government is unachievable
Increase power because
world government is unachievable
Human nature Man is flawed and therefore prone to conflict. This explains why cooperation is never guaranteed and world government is unachievableMan may or may not be flawed. Human nature is not essential to an explanation of conflictAnarchyThe environment in which sovereign nation-states actDescribes the social relations among sovereign nation-states that causally explain why wars occur
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Causes of war for Waltz
(table 2.2)
Location
Description
Type of
cause
First image
Nature of man
Immediate
Second image
International organization of states and societies
Immediate
Third image
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Waltzian
neorealism (table 2.3)
Structure
Ordering principle
Formal differentiation
Distribution of power
Domestic
Hierarchy
Centered
Heterogeneous
Dissimilar
Monopoly
GlobalAnarchyDecenteredHeterogeneousOligopoly
Consequences
Political processes
Relationships
Goals
Domestic
Specialization
High interdependenceMaximize welfareGlobalIntimidationBalancingLow interdependenceMaximize security
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Theory activity: “International anarchy is the permissive cause of war”
Aim
:
Be able to understand the workings of Waltz’s myth
(“international anarchy is the permissive cause of
war”)
through a real world
example
Scenario:
Iran has acquired nuclear weapons
Divide into five groups: Iran, USA, US ally (Britain), Neutral state (Sweden) and World government (quasi world government/ UN)
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Theory a
ctivity cont.
What would your country do in the different scenarios? Use the table to chart out the different possibilities
USA
UK
Iran
Sweden
World government
Quasi-world government
No world or quasi-world
government
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How does
Lord of the Flies represent hierarchy and anarchy?
How does
Lord
of the Flies
represent hierarchy and anarchy? (table 2.4)
Hierarchy
Anarchy
Characterized
by rules, reason, law and order, all of which are guaranteed by the presence of adults
Characterized
by the absence of guarantees to order or reason because of the absence of adults
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What is typical and what is deviant in the two worlds of the
Lord of the Flies? (table 2.5)
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Lord of the Flies
(box 2.2)
Where does fear figure in Waltz’s myth as enacted in
Lord of the Flies?
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Lord of the Flies (table 2.6)
The
locations of fear in
Lord of the Flies
Location
Description
Illustration
First
image
Human nature
Jack and his followers increasing savagery
Second image
International organization of states and societiesJack’s bad tribe against Ralph’s good tribeThird imageInternational anarchyCompetitive, self-help system in which boys create security dilemma on islandNone of Waltz’s imagesIrrationally generated by the boys themselves and externalizedThe beast
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Film activity:
Lord of the Flies and fear
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Next week: Idealism
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