POLI SCI 240- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 29 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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** read each second bullet in line with the second bullets in each section. Businesses want unification but not authoritarian - tariffs to compete with britain. 2nd level: fischer thesis: authoritarian, mercantilist, military influence on civilians. If you have cheap money and consistent revenue, there is no need to tax (middle east oil rents) Major role played by the individual decision maker. 3rd level analysis influenced ww1 the most because alliance system. Cooperation games cc>dd (cc is cooperation: single shot, 2 actors, no communication. Proposition 2: nuclear weapons do no induce stability: misperceptions and miscalculations (crises, rationality of rulers, accidents are possible, nuclear strategies not the result of careful calibration, playing chicken is inherently dangerous. The air force, urges deployment figured around 2,000 to 3,000. General thomas s power, commander of strategic air command wanted 10,000 missiles. Mcnamara then set the deployment goal at first at 800 then soon after increased it to.
