POLS 2950 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: In Kind, Monetary System
12 Apr 2017
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Wars directly involving great powers have declined in frequency, duration and in number of participating states since the 16th century becoming more sever. Among lesser powers there tends to be more and more wars, but fairly small ones among the great powers, fewer and fewer wars, but increasingly deadly ones. We see an increasingly biligent world in which the most powerful states enjoy a partial exemption from war on their own territories and therefore become less sensitive to the horrors of war. Dying a violent death from a civilian"s hand has diminished, but rape, murder and collective violence still haunts our newspaper. If it were not for war, state repression, the automobile and suicide, the odds of violent death of any kind would be an incomparably slimmer in most of the western world today than they were 200-300 years ago.
