POLI 244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Kurdistan Workers' Party, Mao Zedong, September 11 Attacks
3 Oct 2016
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The state (the government as a whole) Rise and fall of global powers, trajectories overlap and give rise to rivalries. Conquering territory captures resources that feed empire. Colonies and allies contribute material and personnel. Costs of maintaining a huge military (soviet union) Nazi"s gained territory for settlement, natural resources and formal operating bases. Neoclassical realists (rose) argue that case-specific factors determine outcomes. Neo-realists (waltz) how you act is based on where you are in the international system, interested in security over power. Independent variables are causal factors that produce an outcome. Dependent variables are the outcomes that we seek to explain (war) For neoclassical realists, all of these factors contribute to shaping (rose) If all leaders are rational, we can predict that they will react the same way to the same incentives and constraints imposed by their environment. Impact of domestic politics (innenpolitik) rose is neorealist. Populations are sensitive to financial and human costs.
