POL 3 Lecture 5: International Relations - Security Issues (10/18/18)
Document Summary
National security: the ability of a state to protect its interests, secrets and citizens from threats that endanger them. War: (1) organized, deliberate violence by an identifiable political authority (2) more lethal than other forms of violence (more than 1000 battle deaths in a year) (3) both sides must have some real capability to harm each other. Intrastate: violence whose origins lay within states (civil war) Has become more common than interstate wars. Trying to establish government for control of a failed or fragile state. Ethnonationalist movements seeking greater autonom of sessions. Wars between ethnic, clan or religious groups for control of the state. Internationalized intrastate war: intrastate war with other countries involved in one side or other. Great african war - internationalized civil war in democratic. Peaceful protests -> harsh government repression -> escalation -> more harsh response. Libya - nato intervention on behalf of libyan rebels accelerated collapse of incumbent government.
