POLS 051 Chapter Notes - Chapter October 31st Reading: Mutual Assured Destruction, Korean Demilitarized Zone, Berlin Wall
12 Jan 2019
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A stable system has the capacity for self-regulation. Short of war, international change tends to be gradual and when it does occur it is usually an evolution of the current system, not a new one. Behavior will not ensure stability if structural prerequisites are absent, but structural systems can impose stability without there being behavioral prerequisites. Post-wwii era saw the emergence of an american sphere of influence in the west and a. Soviet one in the east, creating the first global polarization in modern history. Certain structure of the us-soviet relationship promoted stability: classical liberalism tells that extensive contact leads to greater peace, but history has not shown this. There have been more civil wars than interstate wars, and the ten bloodiest interstate wars were between adjoining states (1) russia and the us are geographically remote, they had an artificial barrier (the.
