POLI SCI 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Oligopoly, Aristocracy, International Waters

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Second level analysis: economics and conflict, mercantilists, origins, 15th century, feudal to state transformation, feudal characteristics (political, economic, military, dometic changes, state making and economic development go hand in hand; reasons, changes in warfare. Territorial integration vs feudal lordships: requires state building and centralisation: Taxation and administration: government intervention in key economic sectors. International perspective: war making correlates with economic gain, economic protectionism (economic nationalism, zero sum nature of international politics, what you lose, i gain, imperialism and colonial acquisition. Logrolling between elites vs popular opinion: dyadic view democracies are more peaceful but only with other democracies. Each country"s population exercises control over decision makers: civil-military relations, hypotheses: if military in control more belligerent. Aristocracy as privileged class: narrow organizational interest rather than the collective, not beholden to electorate-lack of public accountability. Some discussion points with regards second level explanations: Is it possible to manage conflict management with dissimilar types of states.

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