Sept 15

Question 0

State Actors

Answer 0

• Declare/wage wars
• Sign treaties etc.
• at the global level without being a state

Question 1

individuals always retain power, to refuse, to choose wether something is bad, cruel, immoral

Answer 1

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Question 2

UN = United Nations

Answer 2

Collection of states that give the UN power

Question 3

NGO’s = non governmental organizations

Answer 3

Eg MSF, Red Cross, Amnesty international

Question 4

State

Answer 4

Need to have a population, territory, and sovereignty (legal authority)

Question 5

State has a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence (only one’s who can formally declare war)
Domestically?
Outside borders?

Answer 5

D: police. “To serve and protect”. Part of “us”
OB: military. Us vs them mentalities

Question 6

Sovereignty

Answer 6

Chain of hierarchy, competitive system between states, ensures that the global situation will be competitive, stressed

Question 7

Systematic causes of war

Answer 7

• pre-existing conditions states get caught up in. ie. ideologies
• clusters of power who are more likely to cause conflict
• wars are predictable depending on global situations
• more general

Question 8

Situational causes of war

Answer 8

• all of the things that provide this particular conflict

- more specific

Question 9

Alliances

Answer 9

Give states a sense of solidarity at the global level

Question 10

Real Politik

Answer 10

All that matter is the well being of the state

• the enemy of my enemy is my friend
• ally with an enemy and then turn on them after
• worry about tomorrow, tomorrow

Question 11

Raisin d’Etat

Answer 11

State has its own logic, may have to do things for security reasons which usually wouldn’t be condoned

Question 12

What does coercion get us at the global level?

Answer 12

• deterrence
• internal cohesion
• arms races
• attribution error

Question 13

Deterrence

Answer 13

“Don’t mess with us were strong”

• only works if opponent thinks you are capable
• need to show credibility (follow through on threats)

Question 14

Internal cohesion

Answer 14

• might distract population

- safety valve -> send volatile men to war

Question 15

Arms races

Answer 15

• makes other states nervous

- militarily grow -> keeping up with other states weaponry

Question 16

Attribution error

Answer 16

• we give motives to our opened we would never give ourselves
  example: when we set up weapons we’re trying to deter others, but when they do it their being hostile.

Question 17

Advisors/Experts

Answer 17

• CIA, ministry of foreign affairs
• leaders rely on to make decisions
• excluding bad news: group won’t want to let the person down, telling them what they want to hear
  Example: war of Vietnam, NSA -> weapons in Iraq-> GW Bush
  -attribution error
  -time constraints: everything is urgent
  -groupthink: unfamiliar ideas get streamed out, isolate different thoughts, repress independent thinkers

Question 18

We can talk about conflicts based on

Answer 18

Intensity

Technology

Question 19

Intensity

Answer 19

-high: huge battles, battle field, orchestrated
-low: small attacks, skirmishes
Example: Afghanistan, Iraq

Question 20

Technology

Answer 20

• high: guided missiles, bombs, drones, etc

- lows: guns, clubs, machetes, I.e.d.s, etc