POLS 4212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Political Ethics, Deontological Ethics
3 Apr 2019
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We"re done with the hard theoretical part. War is a phenomenon between political communities or between states. You have can a war between two political communities vying for the same power within. It is at least between two states a single state, but that would be a civil war. We are not concerned with civil war. Generally, and internationally speaking, war is a phenomenon between sovereign states. War is by definition the use of intentional and overt violence to resolve disputes. War is the continuation of politics by other means. War itself is as old as politics, and it has been a constant feature of the human experience. War is not the exception in human history, war is the rule in human history. That"s not even 8%, 92% was war. There are only about 120-130 states and there are wars all over the place at the moment. War is the reality of human experience.
