POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Delian League, Kaunas, Homicide
12 Apr 2014
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War is normally thought of as state on state. Weber--state: monopoly of legitimate use of violence within a given territory. What is difference between civil war and revolution? (sequence). Very difficult to make sense of neighbour on neighbour violence. Backstory: 480bce: beating back persians, athenians lead the way ( almost single handed the delian league) 479 to 432bce rise of athens versus sparta. Contrasts: land versus maritime, oligarchy versus democracy. military versus commercial orientation. Reason for war: rise in power of athens and alarm it caused in sparta and its allies. Thus: spartans afraid: " the athenians might become too powerful, seeing the greater part of greece was already in their hands" . I think the truest chase but the last spoken of was the growth of a. Motives: fear, honour, interest, sparta in effect led by lesser allies to chose a policy it would to have chosen on its own. oligarchs versus democrats each with external backer.
