POL 1025 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Security Dilemma, Lloyd Rudolph, Exit Strategy
Document Summary
Civil war and the prospects for intervention: civil war and global politics, often waged to introduce (or prevent the introduction of) new actors in the international system, potential for broader war, debates over international intervention. Arguments about the sources of civil war: ancient hatreds this is a myth! implication: intervention is pointless. Why this is wrong: over prediction of violence. Why this is wrong: does structure trump politics: limits: when politics trumps structure , communal grievances, a synthesis discrimination resentment conflict implications for intervention: power-sharing. Reorder civilization in own image core imperial impulse, equally impoertant to do w/o liberalism democracy (elections w/o liberalism=bad) hard to seperate. Two views: next to nothing, in the long run, recommendation: let them fight, critique: merely a justification for doing nothing, temporary cessation of conflict, only a temporary halt to fighting, breathing space long-term conflict resolution, mechanisms:
