POLI 381 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Old Navy, Invisible Hand, Conditionality

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About amassing military power for defense and to protect it in support of foreign policy: today: kinds of threats facing states change; less state-state rivalries, terrorism. Nature doesn"t change, it remains constant and universal: character of war changes- ways it is fought, technological advances, strategies, hart: if you want peace, understand war, carl von clausewitz: war is the continuation of politics by other means. Idea that war is a failure of peace realists=peace is a failure of war. In emergence of nonstate actors as prominent groups in contemporary warfare. Preserve food, canned goods: post modern war, new wars (used to exclusively be between states). Emerged since mid 1980"s and driven primarily by globalization: contradictory forces of: integration-spreading of dominant western values and ideas; not welcomed by all. Disintegration: states failing and struggles for control of the state: challenges, war was something that took place between states; we knew what to expect, today there are new challenges b)