PO SC 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mutual Assured Destruction, United Nations Security Council Resolution 1696, World Politics

• School: Clemson University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PO SC 1020
• Professor: taratrask

Document Summary

Week 10: war & violence in world politics, part ii. Nuclear states promise to reduce their weapons (ex. Those without weapons should not build them (ex. Israel is contentious; have them but hasn"t told anybody. Pakistan and israel go to war a lot in kashmir so it is contentious. The international atomic energy association will be created to monitor these two provisions. Nuclear energy technologies for civilian purposes should be shared freely. 1990s: new government signed the npt, admitted the old. Apartheid government had developed weapons and dismantled them under iaea rules. Mid 2000s: got caught with nuclear weapons and dismantled them under iaea rules. Mid-2000s: got caught with weapons, withdrew from treaty and declared had weapons. Ability to dissuade another state from acting against one"s interest by the threat of harm one might do in response. It is rational to threaten an action that is irrational.