Various schools of international system theorists like Waltz and Wendt agreed that the international system is anarchic, meaning that there is no dominant authority, all states are considered sovereign and in juridical terms equal and non-existent or weak institutions. Yet, they disagree about what the definition of anarchy is, what constitutes anarchy, what about anarchy causes states to act in certain ways and if anarchy can even be overcome in a meaningful way. On the other hand, Kang and Gilpin argue that the international system is “hierarchic” and not anarchic. This short review essay will first, examine why many scholars of international politics view the international system as disorder, while others view the international system as one characterized by order, secondly what is cooperation in international system and why do states engage or not engage in cooperative behavior by the realists and liberals point of view and last, the main characteristics of the international system.
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The condition of anarchy necessarily creates a self-help device in which states are leaning on maximizing their power as the only sure way to impervious their survival. Self-help and power politics are not essential features of anarchy. Anarchy is not a permanent structure that decides states conduct but a condition whose significance is itself dependent upon state relations. Self-help is one of the various structures identities under anarchy. The anarchy that generates self-help logic as Hobbesian Anarchy (Wendt 67). A self-help world is caused by a process and not structure. Anarchy is not determinative but permissive, it is what states make of it. Like Wendt, I believe that states can figure out how to cooperate and simultaneously build up a more agreeable and less aggressive origination of
A system is composed of a …show more content…
The condition of anarchy necessarily creates a self-help device in which states are leaning on maximizing their power as the only sure way to impervious their survival. Self-help and power politics are not essential features of anarchy. Anarchy is not a permanent structure that decides states conduct but a condition whose significance is itself dependent upon state relations. Self-help is one of the various structures identities under anarchy. The anarchy that generates self-help logic as Hobbesian Anarchy (Wendt 67). A self-help world is caused by a process and not structure. Anarchy is not determinative but permissive, it is what states make of it. Like Wendt, I believe that states can figure out how to cooperate and simultaneously build up a more agreeable and less aggressive origination of