HIS103Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 36: Guerrilla Warfare, Preemptive War, Spanish Empire
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Things covered ( lecture 5&6: succession, origins of the war, the war of the spanish succession (1701/2-1713/14, the peace of utrecht (1713/14) (slashes in both prove debate of when the wars began. Three central issues that started to come up by the end of war of spanish succession- one of them was the rise of england. Rise of england/ britain to a power; powerful navy and willing to fight and pay others to fight in the continent. Other states start copying france in standing army or power and organization of state. They either copy france exactly, or like england find their own way of achieving si(cid:373)ilar sort of po(cid:449)er. Fra(cid:374)(cid:272)e"s predo(cid:373)i(cid:374)a(cid:374)(cid:272)e is i(cid:374) (cid:272)ri(cid:373)e. the (cid:373)ost important issue is the combination of these two points- the purposeful and explicit application of the concept of balance of power. Balance of power is the guiding force for state policy. Balance of power is an elastic concept- a way of understanding ir.