POLS 2200 CHAPTER 2: REALISM Question and answers rated A+
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POLS 2200 CHAPTER 2: REALISM Question and answers rated A+
2 categories of power: - correct answer Hard power
Soft power
Hard power focuses on the ability to coerce others, whereas soft power is about the ability to attract and influence others because they respond positively to your value...
POLS 2200 CHAPTER 2: REALISM
Question and answers rated A+
2 categories of power: - correct answer ✔Hard power
Soft power
Hard power focuses on the ability to coerce others, whereas soft power is
about the ability to attract and influence others because they respond
positively to your values and beliefs.
Hard power - correct answer ✔tangible military capabilities, tanks, navy,
troops, nukes, etc
Soft power - correct answer ✔the exercise of power through a states own
values, ideas, wealth and culture.
Central Assumptions - correct answer ✔States are the principal actors in
international relations and each enjoys sovereignty
States exist in a self-help system of anarchy where survival is the top priority
States are disposed toward conflict rather than cooperation
States are unitary rational actors
the security dilemma - correct answer ✔self-protective stockpiling of
weapons of one state is seen as a threat by others, leading to further
accumulation of weaponry
, dual moral standard - correct answer ✔one that applies to realists and one
that applies to everyone else
The morality of leaders is based on what is in the best interest of their state,
even if that means conducting oneself in a morally reprehensible way.
Classical Realism: - correct answer ✔believe that power is paramount
because humans have an inherent need to dominate others, and therefore
need to protect from domination
Power politics is central
For protection, material capabilities and alliance with other states are central.
Although many alliances are viewed by realists skeptically.
These ideas developed roughly 2500 years ago.
Major Realist thinkers: - correct answer ✔Thucydides (460-395 B.C.E)
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831)
Hans J Morgenthau (1904-1980)
Thucydides (460-395 B.C.E) - correct answer ✔Writings on the
Peloponnesian War (431-404 BCE) are often credited as the first writings in
the realist tradition - one's own survival is only guaranteed through the
development and maintenance of one's own military power.
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