Political Science 2231E Lecture Notes - Pax Britannica, Mutual Assured Destruction, Nuclear Umbrella

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Buck-passing: passing burden of responsibility in a conflict to another nation to accomplish your nations desires because you may loose on your own. Germany to austria-hungry to go to war with serbia. Principle of national self-determination: principle put fourth bywilson in his fourteen point declaration. People form nations and nations have right to be self governing. Collapse of multiethnic empires at the end of wwi. Triple entente: france, britain, russia (italy prior to 1915) Weltpolitik: goal of establishing german empire, aggressive foreign policy. Realist explanation; attacking before you are attacking. The great depression, related to wwi cost (war loans taken out from european nations to us), led to extremist, germans believed the blame fell solely on them. Emergence of us & soviet union as world super powers; arms race between. Nature of warfare has become so dramatic no one wants to see another war. Reconfiguration of european alliance system under nato.

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