GVPT 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Material, Rationality
4 Mar 2016
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Unit-level (domestic, or within states: emphasizes social interaction, international normative context, and other systemic variable, emphasizes unit-level variables, such as a country"s own history, culture, ideology, and religious character. Realism: the west won in a pure power struggle; american got stronger, soviet union got weaker. Liberalism: international institutions, economic interdependence, etc. led the us and ussr to recognize their common interests and start cooperating. Constructivism: new thinking within the soviet union about who its friends and enemies really are. A state of organized, armed conflict (violence) between political communities: organized in groups, armed (capable of violence, some political purpose. Reacting to devastation of total war (wrote book : the kind of war that mobilizes to whole nation to fight a war-using all the economic, saw this in napoleon resources of the country. War is the continuation of politics by other means .
