POLI 244 Lecture Notes - Security Dilemma, International Relations, Primordialism
6 Aug 2012
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Tuesday, july 31, 2012: the ir of human rights and ethnic conflict. Interstate wars still exist, but are more rare than they were in the time of the. Conflict is still endemic, even when war does not break out (and as a result, there are economic drawbacks, less resources to countries, etc. ) The un and other laws have had a focus on inter-state relations and conflict (ex. Npt), but intra-state wars are increasingly the greatest source of conflict. Just as wars between states appear to have decreased, the amount of war within states has increased a great deal (ex. Rwandan genocide, sudanese genocide, the former yugoslavia, serbians vs. kosovars, burma). Not all of these involve civil war, but they are still extremely costly in terms of losses of life. Recent civil wars have centered around authoritarian leaders trying to hold onto power (ex.
