IR 210 1st Edition Lecture 27 Current Lecture It is unbelievable how many systems of morals and politics have ben successively found forgotten rediscovered forgotten again to reappear a little later always charming and surprising the world as if they were new and bearing witness not to the fecundity of the human spirit but to the ignorance of men Alexis de Tocqueville 1852 A lot of these ideas are not necessarily new we forget things When the rich wage war it is the poor who die John Paul Satre When the going gets weird the weird turn pro Hunter S Thompson Worldviews Who control the state Who controls the international system Challenging the neoliberal orthodoxy System Transformers Dump capitalism System Maintainer Work tithing the system System Reformer Capitalism with a human face social democracy Art is man s expression of his joy in labor William Morris artist and socialist To be governed is to be kept in sight inspected spied upon directed law driven numbered enrolled indoctrinated preached at about values censored commanded by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so Proudhorn anarchist Cox problems solving theorists realists and liberals Critical Theorists Marxists utopians critical feminists deep green environmentalists and anarachists Examples 1 World Order Model Project Modern Day Kantians Inspired by Abbe St Pierre Erasmus Ghandi and others Chapter 16 Formed in 1966 Academics who wanted a better world Pushed a normative agenda Met in India in 1969 Wanted to create a global movement similar to those that ended slavery and colonialism Goal rid world of war and poverty Academic goals 1 Describe present conditions 2 Designed preferred futures 3 Map a way to a better future humane governance State system is the problem Move to humane centrism Critical of traditional IR in five ways 1 State centrism search for power and conflict 2 Focus on state security and failure see other challenges 3 Claim of objectivity 4 Disregard facts that suggest the system is not working 5 All about power and not about Richard Falk leader of the project 1 Forty years later a normative project to achieve humane governance
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