GOV 312L Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Extortion, Moral Hazard
Document Summary
Peaceful end of cold war and absence of great power war . Violence, death, and genocide from these conflicts of horrific scale change in focus of war: from interstate to civil war to intrastate. Great war of africa, drc, 1998-, 5+ million dead. Post 1964: cold war moves out of europe and into periphery. Both united states and soviet union support many autocratic regimes with foreign aid and military transfers. End of cold war brings the end . Of american and soviet support for these 3rd world regimes ( could no longer rely on superpower support to maintain domestic power, short on resources + underdevelopment, leaders faced local challenges to their rule) Also, russian oppression ended which allowed more people to challenge the rule intervention creates local incentives to challenge their ruler many new states with mixed ethnic composition of the state.
