POLSCI 3Q03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hedley Bull

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 3Q03
• Professor: Kirsten Fisher

Document Summary

Just what happened: books, academic articles, news, documentaries, blog posts, what happen before the war, actors, disputes actors fought over, disagreements of facts about the war, what actors used to justify their violence, 250words per source. Oxford: a state of armed conflict between different nations or state or different groups within a nation or state. Hedley bull: organised violence carried on by political units against each other. Levy and thompson: sustained, coordinated violence between political organisations. A certain length and a certain number of casualties(?) is important in defining a war.