POLSCI 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Washington Naval Treaty, Arms Control, Collective Action
5 Feb 2018
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Human nature is essentially cooperative, not antagonistic nor belligerent: we know this to be the case from the fact that humans always group together into social organizations, 2. This being so, war must be caused by something that channels this natural cooperation into something more destructive: poorly designed institutions can pervert the natural human tendency to cooperate, 3. Because war is caused by institutional failure rather than human nature, war can be rendered obsolete. It must be possible to clearly identify which state is the aggressor and which state is the victim. Otherwise, it is impossible to know who should be the target of a collective response: can this be done in a context where every state involved in a conflict claims that they are acting in self-defence, 2. States must be willing to automatically attack any aggressor state: given prior relationships, trading relationships, etc. , is this assumption realistic, 3.
