POL208Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Cuban Missile Crisis
4 Dec 2017
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Lecture 8 war: small groups & individuals. War: organized and deliberate political act by an established political authority, requiring mutually capable adversaries (especially sovereign states) who must cause over 1,000 deaths/year. International conflict(definition): overt coercive interaction and dispute of contending collectivities (either between independent members of the international system, or, between the former and nonstate actors) International crisis(definition): a change in type and/or disruptive interaction between two or more states with heightened probability of military hostilities, that destabilizes their relationship and challenges the structure of the international system. Phases of crisis: onset ; pre-crisis increased stress, escalation; crisis maximum stress, de-escalation; end-crisis decreasing stress, impact; non-crisis normal-level stress. *fill out see lecture 8 slide 12. Three central foreign policy concepts related to the cuban missile (and not only) Defense: deploy military force to ward off an attack, and/or minimize damage once attacked (demonstrating a formidable military force)
