POL208Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Outer Space Treaty, Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, United Nations Emergency Force
Document Summary
Lecture 22 (march 19): history and evolution of peacekeeping. Idea was to prevent another front technology in arms race a: americans and soviets competed in everything, argued that it imposed a threat, the criics were wrong. The fact that the americans withdraw from the abm treaty did not spark an arms race with the russians: russia has its system sill in moscow. Impact on outer -space treaty: space would be used for peaceful purposes, when the original star wars iniiaive was put forward, that planned included puing defenses in space (ani-missile satellites). This would have destroyed the outer space treaty: the current plan of the us, does not include space base weapons. The system that are deployed in the moment are land based, aircrat, and ships. From the perspecive of the russians, that is not a concern. At various points, the us asked canada if they wanted to paricipate in bmd. Objecive: form and technique of peacekeeping, efeciveness, cost.