GINS 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mercosur, Mutual Assured Destruction, Global Health
21 Nov 2017
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Internal safety of citizens is most important. This is a traditional realist perspective on security. Mutual assured destruction: if everyone has nuclear weapons, there will be no use of them because it would cause mutually assured destruction. Because of this and the expense, it is often better to use other means than go to war. (russian meddling) A fundamental value in the foreign policy of states secured by a variety of tools and statecraft, like military actions, diplomacy, economic resources, international agreements and alliances. it depends on a stable and productive domestic society. National cohesion: how tightly unified is the population around a project. need to be unified internally to be strong externally. Russia trying to divide countries in order to weaken them. meddling in us. Rounding up people in chile and argentina to disappear in order to create election, brexit, probably catalonian independence cohesiveness. kill people opposing a certain project.
