Wednesday, January 20^th, 1999
Announcements: None

Lecture notes:
 
  I. Power – the currency of politics

1. It can be used to satisfy specific demands
2. Power may have value in itself
3. Fundability- easily transformed into something else
   Examples: Money and power

II. International System

1. It is a self help system
2. There is no institution to order the system---so it is an anarchy
3. It is different from democracy system

III. Idealism

1. Idealism is a normative theory
2. Idealism is the knowledge that the system is anarchy

IV. Realism

1. Realists believe that you must learn to live with anarchy because it is always going to be there
2. They are more concerned with questions of power
3. They differ from idealists in that they are pessimistic about whether or not institutions are going to work in international systems
4. Realists are trying to counter moves in the international system so that no one wins.