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Ayşe-Şevval-Raylaz Assignment 2, book assignment, ENG102 Final, adm1122, Adm1122 midterm
The aim of balance of power is not to establish ongoing peace. As KANT’s words to
establish perpetual peace. Constant peace cannot be established with balance of
power. Balance of Power is the mechanism to keep the international system as it is
as composed of no higher authority about the states to rule them. What keeps order
in this anarchy is the balance.
• there is no justice- forget about justice
• international politics as we used to know it until 1980: talk of international relations merely as a state centric approach
• all states seeking their interests to become stronger than others and survive
• survival was told to be the major driving mechanism.
If you're a small state, how do you survive the anarchy
• you're facing a very big state, very ambitious state
• you're very small and you have very good goldmines
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• what keeps your neighbor away from attacking you
• what keeps state a very big, powerful army from attacking ?
• alliances with other states or bargain on unequal terms
• what do the small states do then ?
• give them all there gold why would that big state be happy with that
• there is no morality
• there is no justice We will see that again recently, afters especially it was hard for small states to implement policies and trying to keep international norms because of issues of prestige in international system.
• But small states in foreign policy has 2 typical behaviour.
• when they are not binary they must bandwagon with the big state
• —> bandwagon with the big one secure yourself against others
• you're direct inside you will lose the war
• or you're trying to build alliance
• if there is something like a bipolarityi the international level it's easier for you to survive,because this big power is going to have an equal right
• the strong do what they have todo the weak has to abide

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