Week 1

Question 1

Intrastate

Answer 1

within a state

Question 2

Paradigms

Answer 2

lenses through which to look

Question 3

Realism

Answer 3

Idea that everything that every interaction states have has to do with power

Question 4

Liberalism

Answer 4

Idea that every interaction between states has to with working together ideals (democratic peace etc)

Question 5

Instrumentalism

Answer 5

Elites seek to maximise gains and will provoke violence to get those

Question 6

Constructivism

Answer 6

Groups are socially constructed, violence as means of asserting group boundaries

Question 7

John Galtung’s version of violence

Answer 7

Direct (you can feel) and structural violence (when people can systematically not fullfill their potential)

Question 8

John Galtung’s peace versions

Answer 8

Negative peace: absence of direct violence. Positive peace: a self-sustaining conditions that protects human security

Question 9

Institutionalism

Answer 9

Institutions main drivers for peace/war

Question 10

Charles tilly theory

Answer 10

war made the state and the state made war (war crucial for the formation of states)

Question 11

Richard Stubbs theory

Answer 11

The Cold War context helped several Asian states build their military and bureaucratic capacity BUT with US aid

Question 12

Interstate war can lead to?

Answer 12

Strengthening of the state

Question 13

Intrastate war

Answer 13

Less of a consensus if civil war leads to stronger states