POL 2103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Politics Among Nations, Totalitarianism, Liberal Internationalism
17 Oct 2016
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> he was a white supremacist, democrat/liberal, liberal internationalists, anti-war. > didn"t want the treaty of versailles to be as harsh as it was on. Germany, believed that the allies went over the top. > 14 points article: reflects his ideas about how ir should be run. Ex: diplomacy/ir is done in secret which in turn can cause conflict, if the public saw how they acted he believed that leaders would be able to resolve conflicts more peacefully and without selfish intention. War of attrition /stalement (both sides mowing ppl down with machine guns), trench warefare, new technologies make it difficult to take land and causes the war to drag on, ptsd affects society. Peace conferences in versailles to come to terms with the end of the war. Woodre wilson responsible for emergence of international relations in the us. Early international relation theorists were inspired by wilson.
