Issues of War & Peace
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Transcript of Issues of War & Peace
The Basics
Reading:
Richard K. Betts. 2008. Conflict after the Cold War: Arguments on Causes of War and Peace, 3rd Edition.
ISBN: 0-205-58352-0
The Basics
• Requirements– Midterm exam
• take home• due around spring break
– Final exam• in class• 12 May at 7:00 p.m.
The Basics
• Research Project– Oral presentation to the class– 10-15 page written report – Topics due by early February– Outlines by March– Final copies early May
Overview
• International Political System• War
– Causes– Types– Strategy– Weapons and Tactics
• Peace
International Political System
• Basic political unit– State
• Other Actors– IGOs
• international orgs• multinational orgs
– NGOs• interest groups• corporations• political organizations
International Political System
• Basic feature– anarchic “self help” system– implication?
• No formal institutional means to prevent conflict• No formal institutional means to resolve conflict
and that in turn means…
Warfare ismuch morelikely to occur.
That is, withoutany real meansto promote andprotect peace,world politics ismuch more violent than itsdomesticcounterpart.
International Political System
• So we can prevent war by changing the international political system
• If international politics were more like domestic politics, violence would occur, but be much more manageable, right?
Causes of War
• Biological and social evolutionary theories– non human primate
studies– “primitive” warfare
Causes of War
• Economic Interests• Scarcity fuels
competition, competition -- in conditions of anarchy -- generates conflict
Types of War
• “Conventional”• Non Conventional
– Guerrilla– Insurgency– Civil– Nuclear– Chemical/Biological– Computer