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Legalism is a Chinese political philosophy that holds that self-interest underlies human nature and therefore human behavior. [1] It is axiomatic in Legalism that a government can not truly be staffed by upright and trustworthy men of service, because every member of the elite—like any member of society—will pursue their own interests and thus must be employed for their interests. [2]
Realism, a school of thought in international relations theory, is a theoretical framework that views world politics as an enduring competition among self-interested states vying for power and positioning within an anarchic global system devoid of a centralized authority. It centers on states as rational primary actors navigating a system ...
Politics. Public choice, or public choice theory, is "the use of economic tools to deal with traditional problems of political science ." [ 1] Its content includes the study of political behavior. In political science, it is the subset of positive political theory that studies self-interested agents (voters, politicians, bureaucrats) and their ...
Self-determination[ 1] refers to a people 's right to form its own political entity, and internal self-determination is the right to representative government with full suffrage. [ 2][ 3] Self-determination is a cardinal principle in modern international law, binding, as such, on the United Nations as an authoritative interpretation of the ...
International relations theory is the study of international relations (IR) from a theoretical perspective. It seeks to explain behaviors and outcomes in international politics. The three most prominent schools of thought are realism, liberalism and constructivism. [ 1] Whereas realism and liberalism make broad and specific predictions about ...
In contrast to enlightened self-interest is simple greed, or the concept of "unenlightened self-interest", in which it is argued that when most or all persons act according to their own myopic selfishness, the group suffers loss as a result of conflict, decreased efficiency and productivity because of lack of cooperation, and the increased expense each individual pays for the protection of ...
Identity politics. Identity politics is politics based on a particular identity, such as ethnicity, race, nationality, religion, denomination, gender, sexual orientation, social background, caste, and social class. [ 1] The term could also encompass other social phenomena which are not commonly understood as exemplifying identity politics, such ...
Sir Keir Starmer has vowed his government agenda can counter the “snake oil charm of populism” and declared an end to the “era of politics as performance and self-interest.”. Following the ...