POLI 244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Preventive War
21 Feb 2018
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Civil war and interstate war - lecture interstate war 3million deaths. Therefore, civil wars create more deaths than interstate war. Civil war: armed conflict that occurs between organized actors within a state. Civil wars are like interstate wars as bargaining failure. But one big difference the collection action problem of non-state actors. Civil wars: rebel groups interests: rebels ultimate source of dissatisfaction: Grievances, greed: government and rebels fight over: Territory: solutions separatist groups (separate from state) or irredentist group (add to state) for ex: ira in northern ireland. From grievances/greed to armed conflict: group-level explanations. Nature of the interests religion ideology. Forcible recruitment child soldier, sexual slaves: country-level explanations. Regime type openness of the political system. Rebels interests are shared with outside actors. Regime type and civil war: civil wars are more likely in political regimes that are democratic but not repressive/ open enough. Ci(cid:448)il (cid:449)ar (cid:272)an (cid:271)e understood as a (cid:271)argaining failure (cid:272)aused (cid:271)y .
