GVPT 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Future Wars, Total War, Ethnography
4 May 2016
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Emphasizes social interaction, international normative context, and other systemic variables. 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; america 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. War involving countries/entities mobilizing resources to fight war. All economic resources, all citizens not just soldiers. War is the continuation of politics by other means . Use variety of methods: large datasets, game theory, modeling, ethnography. Often wealthy elites fought in battle (!) Not well trained; not a professional fighting force. Greek soldiers forming large battering ram of sorts. Evolved professional fighting force that was highly trained and efficient.
