IR 210 1st Edition Lecture 27 Current LectureIt 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 humanspirit but to the ignorance of men. -Alexis de Tocqueville (1852) A lot of these ideas are not necessarily new, we forget thingsWhen the rich wage war it is the poor who die.-John Paul SatreWhen the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -Hunter S. ThompsonWorldviews: Who control the state? Who controls the international system?, Challenging the neoliberal orthodoxySystem Transformers Dump capitalismSystem Maintainer Work tithing the systemSystem 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 liberalsCritical Theorists = Marxists, utopians, critical feminists, deep green environmentalists, and anarachistsExamples: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 conditions2. Designed preferred futures3. Map a way to a better future—humane governance- State system is the problem- Move to humane centrism- Critical of traditional IR in five ways1. State centrism: search for power and conflict2. Focus on state security and failure see other challenges3. Claim of objectivity4. Disregard facts that suggest the system is not working5. All about power and not about- Richard Falk: leader of the project1. Forty years later—a normative project to achieve humane
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