PSC 124 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - International Law, Liberalism, Democracy
12 Oct 2018
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Civil war = a con ict between organized groups within a nation-state (mostly labeled when battle deaths reach 1000) Contentious politics = domestic con icts that do not rise to the level of civil war. Di usion = the spread of protest and tactics through the process of observation and copying. Intervention = the involvement of outside actors in contentious politics or civil war. Con ict spillover = the spread of a domestic con ict across state borders. Hegemonic wars - wars contested to determine who will be the dominant state in the system. Third wave of democratization - the series of transitions from autocracy to democracy that began with a democratic revolution in portugal in 1974. Zone of peace - a group of democratic states. International war may strengthen the victor, but civil war always weakens the state. Political -> seeking to overthrow the government or force it to reform.
