[GS101] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (43 pages long!)
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Part iv: armed conflict in the 21st century 9/11 and the global war on terror. Costs of war in usd in 2008: ww1 billion. Deaths: 20 million: ww2 - ,114 billion. Deaths: 50-72 million: vietnam war - billion. Deaths: 2. 3-5. 3 million: afghanistan billion. Causes of war: realism and the quest for power need for conquest. Hu(cid:374)ti(cid:374)gto(cid:374)"s clash of ci(cid:448)ilizatio(cid:374): a cultural vie(cid:449) of co(cid:374)fli(cid:272)t. Civilization means a pervasive culture, shared by many countries, impacting a large region of the world over time. Civilization tends to have similar systems of law and governance, economic organization, patterns of living and settlement, types of food and subsistence, and kinds of culture. Cold war = war of ideology, we now witness the clash of civilizations. Culture plays a renewed role in international relations and politics: civilizational consciousness increasing, displacing nationalism and economic ideology (capitalism vs. socialism) of the cold war as the basis for conflict.
