----- Original Message ----- From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 4:29 PM Subject: Re: "Cause" vs. "Justified" (was: Re: Hitchens responds to critics)
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> Ian Murray wrote:
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> > From: "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com>
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> > > The dominant neorealist view is that states are states and
pursue
> > their
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> I know what "realism" means in a dozen or so different contexts, but
> this one is not clear to me.
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> Carrol
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Very quickly, realism is the assertion the international system of states is anarchic and Hobbesian. In state-power terms it is viewed as a zero-sum game. It is the heir of mercantilism and defends amoralism in the realm of diplomacy. It's leading spokespersons are Kenneth Waltz and Robert Gilpin; scratch Condaleeza Rice and you will find their world view...The originator of it's research agenda yaddah yaddah was Henry Morgenthau. Neoliberalism as an international relations paradigm, developed in reaction to the nastier implications of realism's love of a vacuum of international institutions to check imperialists based in any national polity. The two leading neoliberal theorists are Robert Keohane and John Ruggie. They take their cue from Kant's "Perpetual Peace" essay as opposed to the realists enjoyment of the lack of a Leviathan at the planetary scale of governance.
< http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/morg6.htm >
< http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/walglob.htm >
Ian