HIST 432 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Munich Agreement, Economic Stability, Appeasement
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Locarno) because all the countries failed to realize how fragile the structure of post-versailles peace was + nobody could have predicted the great depression. Economic stability maintains international order, but is not the sole cause. > bring this into lens of cold war when it was written; un critique: it doesn(cid:495)t have. Greek )slands(cid:524), diplomacy really hasn(cid:495)t made much progress (cid:523)countries break enforcement power (ex. peacekeeping missions comparable to lon failures in the agreements/treaties all of the time) Orthodox: soviet completely to blame, usa only reacting to soviet aggression based on communism. Revisionist: flip side, usa to blame for aggression. Post-revisionist: add complexity; try to balance various causes such as ideology. (cid:498)national security(cid:499) in the traditional sense: too vague a term to be useful; (cid:494)national security for whom? (cid:495) Problem is that national security consensus doesn(cid:495)t include ideological and domestic issues. Critique: sources taken from the us government must be critically analyzed, not just taken at face value.
