POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Aristocracy, Germanic Languages, Waterboarding
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Discussion of war to other fields of human acitivtiy. War is an actual intentional and widespread armed conflict between political communities . Political community: state or entity that wants to become a state. Austrian-hungarian empire, murder of the armenians, ethnic cleansing, balkan wars) Wars have their own logic and they acquire their own momentum. Always have one event: brutality, murder, acts that would not be committed outside of war. War was a reflex in european history. In the 16th and 17th century religious wars defined the civilian experience as murderous. No distinction between war and politics war and religious. All states used war to capture territories, expand markets and to convert subjects. Politics, economics and religion all lined up with war. A powerful motivation for war i. e. christianity to protestant. Multiple features of contemporary world are unimaginable without ww2: division of germany and europe, cold war, american supremacy, human rights revolution of the 1960s, postwar prosperity.
