POL208Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Hague Conventions Of 1899 And 1907, Al-Qaeda, Cuban Missile Crisis
8 Apr 2016
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Slaughterhouse five a book by harrison star. Writing an anti-war book is like writing an anti-galcier book. War is an event involving the organized use of military force by at least two parties that satisfies some minimal threshold of severity fls. War (and conflict) must have a willing opponent. But war is not the only response to conflict. Conflicting interests that are mutually exclusive: war is an exceptional outcome. If state a wants to fight state b, state b can capitulate. Misperceptions and mistakes: misperception of signals. Soccer war: el salvador vs honduras, world cup qualifiers led to a war. States have conflict over things of value: fighting over stuff (territory, fighting over ideas (regimes, policies) War is a result of an interaction, gone to one logical extreme (extreme interaction) War is nothing but a continuation of political intercourse, with a mixture of other means .
