POLI 244 Study Guide - Classic Case, Bargaining, Wage War
12 Dec 2012
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A war is an event that uses organized military force by at least two parties that satisfies some minimum threshold of severity. The fact that that force must be used on both sides distinguishes war from mass killing perpetrated by a government against a group of people. Scholars often require the prerequisites to war be at least 1,000 deaths. If the main parties are to the conflict are both states, we refer to this event as an interstate war. If the parties are in conflict within a state we call this a civil war. It can also be for religious reasons like the fight over israel between the jews and arabs or. States also fight each other over disagreement over policy, such as when it benefits them but harms other states in the process. A good example is how the usa attacked iraq in suspicion of them pursuing a policy of attaining weapons of mass destruction.
