POL 140 Lecture Notes - Blitzkrieg, Mutual Assured Destruction, Deterrence Theory
12 Dec 2013
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Traditionalist narrow view: well matched with realism, needing to secure my state" against your state", narrowly focused on ideas of war and peace. Broad view: middle ground, security in a physical sense, tends to start looking at individuals, might be able to see peacekeeping, etc, liberal-constructivist. Critical security studies: critical theories (marxism, etc. ) sit here, they want to take an even broader view, look at security in a comprehensive sense, broadest view of them all. Traditionally a centre part of the study of security studies has been the study of war. War is : a form of social and political behaviour. This is how we get actors: a central feature of world politics and history. Clausewitz: an act of force to compel our opponents to fulfill our will , context: large scale military confrontations between state representatives. Bull: organized violence carried on by political units against each other . Differences between the two: bull is more broader, clausewitz limits you.
