PSCI 3107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Democratic Peace Theory, Human Nature, Selfishness
26 Sep 2016
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Searching for a general theory that can account for the occurrence of war. War as a variable o o o. The search for a theory that can explain the variations in war. Trying to explain the reasons for a particular war. Many claim that monocausal explanations are theoretically and empirically deficient. A related question is how to explain variations in war and peace. Many seem to follow thucydides" distinction between the underlying or permissive causes of war and immediate of efficient causes of war. Short term vs. long term causes are not fully explained. How do we explain the origins of a particular war. Better for classifying causal variables then theories. Alternative ways to frame the issue: additional levels of analysis to consider, more than just waltz three levels, war-prone dyads/dyadic level. Reflects the bilateral interactions between pairs of states. Example: the democratic peace theory is dyadic, as it analysis pairs of states o.
