• wars are inevitable • they are another extension of foreign policy instruments : embargoes, blockades • then they might wage a war—> wars are natural in intl. politics • peace is like interruptions of war • when you have peace get ready for war —> alliances temporary, bc states cannot be trusted in anarchical system • ITS IMPOSSIBLE TO CHANGE ANARCHY PER SE 52 SECURITY DILEMMA SELF-HELP
• duality of morality, domestically seeking legitimacy, obsessed with sates, states survive with self help system locking them into security dilemma • states are given, fixed behaviour bc of anarchy • rationally principle overrules all , raison d’etat • actor is sate • cooperations are temporary, peace is temporary, wars are given • Westphalian order, core principles, only principle which bind the states morally is coexistence , nonintervention, bop, sovereignty, nothing else binding states • sovereignty is what we have • major issues • Westphalian order given • all other attempts to change anarchy utopian • anarchy is thereto stay bc its the nature of the state EXAM: 3 parts short answers we need to write with a lot of EXAMPLES anarchical 2nd cold war not only the period , u discuss a bit 2nd part : short answers 1 long question theoretical discussion requirements: give examples, use terms, use examples, westphalia Iraq, Syria, Middle Ages, 9/11
