MARKET 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Virtue Ethics, Counterargument, Deontological Ethics
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Levy & thompson causes of war chapter 1 introduction to the study of war. War often undermines security rather than enhances it. Tilly (1975) war made the state, and the state made war . The main question the importance of war, its causes and its elimination. Why more focus on interstate wars? irrelevant for civil war. Israel and palestine, indo-pakistan rivalry, the korean peninsula, china and taiwan: interstate wars are not likely to be the most frequent form of warfare in the upcoming years, but they have the potential to be the most destructive. Defining was as a sustained coordinated violence between political organisations. Different components of the definition: first, war is violent. Cold war was a rivalry between the us and soviet union, not a war. Important question thus becomes why some rivalries lead to wars and others don"t: second, the word between , a war is between two political organizations, e. g.
