PS 280 Lecture 20: Lecture Week 10 (Bremer)
2 Apr 2017
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Empiric: hard evidence, something you can see and observe happening: ex: we can count wars that happen. Dyads- a single pair of states: ex: us & france, us & mexico, north korea & south korea, there are 202,778 total. Why is this article important: a lot of previous studies focused on things on the national level (systems), this one focuses on pairs of states (dyads, considers long period of time (1816-1965) Power parity (power equality: when not equal in power, the weaker one will not be foolish and go to war . When they have different power levels, a more powerful country might want to control a weak country: when equal in power, no one is certain of victory . When they"re equal in power, it makes sense to not go to war, shouldn"t risk it. Ex: if russia invades latvia, the us and nato countries will help. Countries are obligated to go to war: neutrality agreement.
