POLB80H3 Lecture Notes - Mutual Assured Destruction, Great Power, Nuclear Weapon
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Stories that the set of facts tell us: power of chemical weapons norms, how strong/weak. Impact of past fp (us foreign policy) failures. 2: geopolitics trumps morals, supporting an ally therefore trump the ally. Us is punishing syria and can at least get syria into a place where they are forced to give up their chemical weapons. How did we get here i: the evolution of sovereignty. At the end of the lecture today you should: Grasp that there are multiple histories that can be told about the development of. Understand the origins of the modern state system and the relationship between. Understand how key events in the 20th century shaped how world politics looks. Multiple histories: western civilization, steeped in the notion of the national system. State system is based on the nation state. Created a single global system and spread one type of global system over the whole globe.