POL 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nuremberg Trials, European Colonialism, Mikhail Gorbachev
20 Apr 2016
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Post wwi efforts to create an international governance structure that would serve to defuse conflicts between states through dialogue, compromise and cooperation. Wilsons 14 points, economic crisis and the great depression. Increased interdependence since 1870s- protectionism and conflict, a failed effort at peace ww2. Nuremberg trials of nazis for war crimes against humanity, establishes modern concept of an international criminal court. National self-determination and the end of european colonialism (domestic struggle). Bipolarity, managed conflict, informal rules of conflict, proxy wars. Dozens of sponsored and instigated conflicts by proxy wars. Individual: major leader"s belief systems (reagan and gorbachev) led them to pursue cooperation over conflict. National: ussr"s economic system could no longer provide domestic goods + services to keep up with the us military spending. Systemic: distribution of power in the international system shifting towards the us and. Gorbachev and other reformers acted to forestall the shift.
