POLS 264 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Crimean War, Sunk Costs, Eurocentrism
13 Feb 2017
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Fifty years war = russo-japanese war (1904-1905), great war (1914-1918), second world. Much of the twentieth century embroiled in war systemic wars happen once a century. Usually at the beginning of a century western ways of thinking about time mean new beginnings. Length of time between wars gave time to rebuild from destructive wars process of recovery leads to disequilibrium. By the time new systemic wars broke out, there was no one alive left to remember the significance of the last war lack of memory allows people to conceive of war as a solution. Equilibrium that comes out of war if a kind of peacepax: It is named after the dominant power and refers to the system being at peace . International relations is about understanding the causes of war and conditions of peace. Causes of systemic war balance of power narrative and disequilibrium. Conditions of peace are harder to define:
