POLB80H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Mutual Assured Destruction, Security Dilemma, Tariffs In United States History
2 Jan 2014
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Deterrence: is a strategy intended to dissuade an adversary from undertaking an action not yet started, or to prevent them from doing something that another state desires. If you attack me, i"ll attack you doubly for deterrence to work, leaders are rational (sensitive to loss) the threat of retribution must be large alternatives must be available ex. Mutually assured destruction during cold war a philosophy that both sides held to both sides assumed that the other side was rational: assumptions, problems realists do not believe that states will escape the security dilemma. Arms control: international disarmament or arms limitation, esp. by mutual consent. go back to the notion that states have common interests that they can pursue in global politics common interest in not fighting pursue their interest through other means. United nations: the united nations was established to preserve the peace between states after the second world war.
