FOREIGN POLICY ANALYSIS Dersi Foreign Policy Instruments of States: War and Conflict soru detayı:

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How does Thomas Hobbes define war?


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One of the most prominent founders of the realist thought Hobbes defines war as “an extension of the state of nature which is the condition of war of all against all”. The state of nature, the natural condition of mankind is also a condition of war of all against all in which human beings constantly seek to destroy each other in an incessant pursuit for power. To avoid this, free men contract with each other to establish political community (civil society) through a social contract in which they all gain security, in return for subjecting themselves to an absolute sovereign. This in the interstate system is not possible, because the anarchical structure of the interstate system or the state of nature is profitable, thus bearable.