POL208Y1 Chapter Notes -Kenneth Waltz, Escalade, World Politics
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Military conflict: why states and other actors resort to force. The value of nuclear weapons has rested in their non-use because it rendered other nuclear weapons useless. Some people even say that wars can possibly be obsolete because people fear that a war can escalade into nuclear war this was proven false with saddam hussein to take kuwait and the response from the united nations. The legitimacy of force or the threat of force is maintained in several ways. The un allows states to use force in the form of self-defense. After world war ii, 150 governments have been created due to the multiethnic and multi-tribal populations. Force has been used as a principal tool by non-state actors to challenge established governments for control of a state or a region that hopes to become a state of its own. The use of force by non-state actors is one of a number of challenges to the nation-state in the contemporary system.
