POLI 244 Lecture Notes - Soft Power, Hard Power, Arab Spring
13 Jul 2014
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Iraq and afghanistan more costly than 9/11 attacks (all of them: international communities (eu) cannot act as a clear entity against terrorism. Still up to countries individually: states are still units of foreign policy, still room for state-centric approaches, eu still has problems with common fp, states still units largely conducting fp, countries are no longer relevant. Politicians cannot mobilize their population to engage in war cause people don"t want to do it because its so costly. Politicians lose popularity by engaging in war. Us only could go on war on terrorism because of the 9/11 attacks: china is there developing the complete portfolio of power (weapons, nuclear weapons, large economy, developed economy) Have oil, minerals, nuclear weapons, lots of. Tripolar world is dangerous since 2 countries may try to eliminate the people other one. If there"s a tripolar world (us, china, russia) and they all have nuclear weapons there"s problems.
