POL SCI 5 Lecture Notes - Liberal Democracy, Hopsin, Islamic Fundamentalism
20 Dec 2013
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Defining war: sustained intergroup violence in which state military enforces participate on at least one side. Civil war is on one side, interstate war is on more than one side single act of violence does not mean war. War is the continuation of politics by other means ex: 30 years war ,napoletic war, 2 world wars. Partly because of the numbers many great powers and deaths. Overtime, great power wars have declined, general wars have not declined. During the cold war (1945-1990) 140 wars and 25 million deaths. Asia & korea; iran and iraq war = highest deaths. Interstate wars have declined over time, but civil wars have increased partly because we have more states after decolonization. Not about why actors want to go to war, but moreso what types of conflicts can lead to war: 1) conflict over material interests territorial: historically, many wars have been fought over territory.
