POLI 244 Lecture Notes - Correlates Of War, Bargaining, Actor Model
20 Dec 2012
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One definition: direct aggression by state actors. Has not always been regarded as a bad thing . Athens; display of superiority (race, culture, civilization: idealized warriors, associated good things with the concept. Romans as well: moral language: virtue , latin term for virture => vir => man => courage, steadfastness war, empire = empiro => violence. 19th century romantics: talk of the nature of struggle as artistic inspiration, social darwinism, we should pursue struggle, nitsze: world of power, valorizes idea of conflict. Nazis: way of establishing your self and culture. Advances civilization, self, culture, technology: the iliad could not have been written today, we don"t have the values for it. Clausewitz employs the historical method (schelling and fueron are more rational) War has 2 dimensions: normative (moral) dimension good/bad, empirical (factual) dimension what leads to war. But it is difficult to pull apart these two dimensions. Collect data for scientific study of war.
