PP230 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Anti-Ballistic Missile, Strategic Defense Initiative, Mutual Assured Destruction
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Part i: 1st order strategies (deterrence strategies: deterrence strategies: from fear to trust, 2 general policies of deterrence: mad (mutually assured destruction) & nuts (nuclear use. Theories/nuclear utilization targeting strategies) based on fear & threat: nye accepts deterrence but has 2 conditions: It is not to be relied upon forever. It"s to be used only when there are no alternative means of defending one"s values: deterrence is a policy governed by fear, terror and ultimately irrational thinking. Internal sovereignty: gov"ts authority to regulate internal affairs of nation: external sovereignty: nation"s freedom to deal w/other nations as it sees fit. Two strategies of the world federalists of canada. Initiative to prove nuclear weapons are illegal in canada: prove on grounds that they violate almost all of the humanitarian laws of war, such as indiscriminate killing, violation of jurisdiction of non-wring states.
