SOSC 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Nuclear Proliferation, World Politics, Opportunity Cost
8 Jan 2018
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Power in world politics: show military might. Realist roads to security: review table 8. 1. The elements of state power: very difficult issue to decide the proper military expenditures. The cost of military spending: opportunity cost. The cost of peace (cost of a stealth plane) vs. building schools, hospitals. Changes in military capabilities: private military services. Trends in the weapons trade: prolongs conflicts in small countries. Motives for the arms trade: the military-industrial complex. Nuclear weapons: proliferation is a concern, horizontal nuclear proliferation (an increase in the number of nuclear states) vs. vertical nuclear proliferation (an increase in the capabilities of existing nuclear states) Compellence: a method of coercive diplomacy usually involving an act of war or threat to force an adversary to make concessions against his will. Deterrence: seeks to dissuade an adversary from undertaking some future action. Three key elements: capability-have actual strength, credibility-be prepared to act, communication-communicate clearly your threat, success require second-strike capability, helps avoid mad.
