HIS103Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Rhine, Palace Of Versailles, Indulgence
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**strategy has to be consistent with political end, e. g. fail to consider economic, political, geographical, eventually end up in a disaster --> end up like us in iraq. Best guarantee for survival & collective security: international institutions. Birth of international relations; same principles/laws applied today, foundation. Idea that every major war must be concluded with a peace treaty. Only been 2 military conflicts that weren"t concluded by peace treaties: korean war, japan & russia. Rule that most negotiations must be done through diplomacy. Objective: postwar settlement that doesn"t penalize loser, incorporates them making them valuable to other countries. Territorial settlement: borders remained for centuries, almost unchanged. Rousseau: believed p of w is foundation of eu. What prompted the p of w: thirty years war- 1618-1648: most devastating war. Most states in west eu suffered equally. **no society can afford such catastrophic losses.
