POLSCI 160 Lecture 4: Lecture Four Notes (1)
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Close terrorist training camps and hand them over. Give the us full access to terrorist training camps. Parties turn to violence when they can"t get what they want through bargaining. Conflict of interests occur over issues: territorial, political, or ideological. Disputes arise when one side makes demand for change in the status quo. Resolving a dispute requires an outcome that both sides accept. Inflation and military incompetence in russia during ww1. When they can"t agree, trotsky straight up declares peace. Trotsky returns, agrees to the last german terms, but now germany wants more. What germany wanted was a reflection of military capabilities. We can represent all possible settlements on a line where each side wants to pull the outcome to their side. The expected outcome minus the costs of war determines its reservation level. Reservation point is the settlement it views as equal to going to war. How well it expects its military to fight.
