POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Cuban Missile Crisis, Berlin Wall, Asymmetric Warfare
Document Summary
Cold war realism and short 20 century end of cold war threat switches: Assymetric threats (terrorism) and the rise of new powers not so much from states, non- state actors, new states. Multi-polarity end of napoleonic wars til wwi- 1945 multiple states equal political/military, compete on same footing, technology/economy same. Age of high diplomacy 1815, containment (becomes dangerous, you seal it off, court it off, contain it) Go to war to alter, to reserve some political end just or unjust end. Cult of the offensive perceived object war destroy enemy before destroy you, made for especially dangerous situation. Ideology and globe as zero sum game any game for one side seen as loss for the other. Rise nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction game changer, took world of defense to world of deterrence, world of which military war fighting terms. Nuclear doctrine and game theory (prisoner"s dilemma).