POLI 345 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Arms Control, Nuclear Technology, List Of Muppets

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 345
• Professor: Vincent Pouliot

Document Summary

Cold war deadlock: veto was used a lot during the cold war by every country, especially the us and the. Empty chair policy was a mistake by them and they never repeated it: other crises = same story, deadlocked sc, deals on the sides, example hungarian revolution (1956) when soviets invade, gulf war 1990-1991. Suez crisis (1956) when british, israelis and france invade egypt when nasser nationalizes the canal (for their personal gains: first peacekeeping mission by united nations by lester b. Pearson: less threatening for larger powers so they let smaller countries go into the region and command peacekeeping missions (canada, india, sweden, etc. ) Ussr going through democratization therefore its trying to reorient its foreign policy to allow it to get closer to the west. First instance for soviets to go in the same side as the other countries to support the un. A lot of the parameters for the intervention were under chapter 7.