POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - De Jure, George Soros, Power Projection
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Lecture ix the rise of great powers: international relations theory, uncertain realities and the rise of china. Democratic peace theory argues that democracies tend not to fight one another. Often democracies are allies, adhere to liberal, capitalist ideological ethos, and democracies tend to be slow. As an industry, democracy is not very good at theory. E. g. we did not predict the end of the cold war. One of the characteristics of politics/international relations is uncertainty. Two contending forces: uncertainty but, on the other hand, political scientist try to predict. China is the second largest military spender in the world: active military personnel 1:5:1 (prc:us); in terms of active personnel the military in. Available personnel is five times larger than: land based weapons 1:1; the us and china are equal, naval ships 1:2; the us is greater in naval ships but china has been spending more.
