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| International relations: International relations is the study and practice of interactions among nations, including diplomatic, economic, cultural, and strategic exchanges. It examines how countries and global actors engage, cooperate, and compete in addressing international issues. See also Foreign policy, Politics, Foreign aid, Peace, War, Development economics._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Edward Hallett Carr on International Relations - Dictionary of Arguments
Gaus I 290 International relations/Carr/Brown: (...) for E. H. Carr (2001 [1939](1)), the most influential British realist, the dilemmas of international relations are created by the human condition not by human nature. CarrVsNiebuhr: Scarcity, not sin, is at the root of realism; there are not enough of the good things to go around, and thus the liberal internationalist assumption of a natural harmony of interests is wrong. >International relations/Niebur, >Political realism/Brown. Rather, the privileged, whether states or individuals, will seek to defend the status quo, dressing up this defence in legalistic and Gaus I 291 moralistic terms (...). International politics/Carr: International politics is about this conflict, and the mistake of 1919 was to attempt to assign a moral status to the outcome of the First World War that it did not deserve. In the first edition of his book, Carr makes it clear that the correct way to deal with the challenge posed by figures such as Hitler and Mussolini in the 1930s was to buy them off in the general interest, if necessary with other people's property; this position somehow failed to appear in the second edition, published in 1945 (Fox, 1985(2); Cox, introduction to Carr, 2001(1)). CarrVsLiberalism//Brown: Carr's politics were quasi-Marxist and his opponents were liberal internationalists, yet there is much about his account of the world that is consistent with at least one variety of liberalism. Rationalism/realism: Carr presents an essentially Hobbesian account of the human condition. For Carr, states and individuals have interests which they pursue rationally, using whatever means are at their disposal, and this inevitably leads to conflict, which the international system is unable to resolve because there is no international Leviathan. Instead, and here Carr's realism and American realism can agree, the only check on the exercise of power by one state (or coalition) is the power of another. >Political realism/Brown, >Balance of Power/Waltz, >State/Waltz. 1. Carr, E. H. (2001 [1939]) The Twenty Years Crisis, ed. and introduction Michael Cox. London: Palgrave. 2. Fox, W. R. T. (1985) 'E. H. Carr and political realism: vision and revision'. Review of International Studies, 11: 1-16. Brown, Chris 2004. „Political Theory and International Relations“. In: Gaus, Gerald F. & Kukathas, Chandran 2004. Handbook of Political Theory. SAGE Publications_____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Carr, Edward Hallett Gaus I Gerald F. Gaus Chandran Kukathas Handbook of Political Theory London 2004 |
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