PSCI 2601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Food Security, Democracy Promotion, Unilateralism
16 Dec 2017
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Post-cold war trends and patterns: no great power war for the past 60-70 years. Democratic peace: nuclear weapons changed the calculations that states make so that states with nuclear weapons don"t even want to think about using them and want to avoid war, intra-state war, privatization of war (postmodern warfare) Traditionally defined in terms of national security the ability of a state to protect its territory and core values from external threats. Threats does not make sense to talk about security without considering the nature of threats most often defined militarily. States must rely on themselves to survive. National security as armed defence of territory and core values from foreign threats. Grand strategy the overall vision of a state"s national security goals and a determination of the means by which to achieve these goals: ie. full employment, protection of borders, spreading democracy. Expanded notion of security (economic, environmental, societal, personal)
