night-watchman - 2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard

Question

Ferdinand Lassalle coined the term for this model as a pun on a German term implying stupidity. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this model of state justified as an enforcer of the non-aggression principle by right libertarians.

ANSWER: night-watchman [or minarchy or minarchism; accept Nachtwächterstaat; prompt on watchman]

[10m] This thinker used the term “night watchman” to refer to a hypothetical global hegemon between states, as opposed to the regional hegemony achieved in his theory of “offensive realism,” in The Tragedy of Great Power Politics.

ANSWER: John Mearsheimer

[10e] Mearsheimer’s offensive realism relies on this condition’s “international” form, meaning no global hegemonic power controls relations. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon advocated for this condition, the abolishment of state power.

ANSWER: anarchy [accept word forms such as anarchism; accept international anarchy]

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Summary


2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	16.00	100%	0%	60%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	8	13.75	88%	25%	25%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	12.50	100%	0%	25%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	8	15.00	100%	25%	25%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	7	14.29	100%	14%	29%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	8	17.50	100%	25%	50%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	6	21.67	100%	67%	50%

Data


BU	Belmont	0	10	10
Brown	Brandeis	0	10	10
RIT	Harvard	0	10	10
Lexington	MIT	10	10	20