PSCI 3107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Carl Von Clausewitz, Power Transition Theory
24 Apr 2018
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Politics of war= most states, even the ones who have not been engaged in war thus far, are: threatening war, preparing for it, trying to avoid it, and/or actively engaged in it. Polarity: power transition theory: unipolar= 1, bipolar= 2, tripolar= 3 (some argue ww2 was one, multipolar= 3+ International war= a military conflict waged between national entities, at least one of which is a state, and that results in at least 1,000 battle-deaths of military personnel (9999 or less is not a war) War= large-scale organized violence between politically defined groups (2 or more sovereign states) Hedley"s definition= war is organized violence carried on by political units against each other. Violence is not war unless it is carried out in the name of a political unit; what distinguishes killing in war from murderers is its vicarious and official character.
