POLI 244 Lecture 10: POLI 244 Part 10
2 Apr 2018
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What we"ve done so far : what we"re going to do next. Rationalist explanations of contemporary war: war from incomplete information, war from commitment problems, war from indivisibility, war from domestic politics. Why are there wars: the puzzle of war, war as bargaining failure, war from incomplete information. More states today, but there is less inter-state war than previous decades. Death-rates have also been steadily decreasing as well. Since the end of ww2, number of deaths have been reduces, as well as after the end of the cold war. War is costly: blood and treasure, states would rather get what they want without going to war, in war, the aggressor is always peace-loving he would prefer to take over our country unopposed. karl von clausewitz. What states fight over: means to get something. Territory (want more territory, any territory i gain is a loss to you) National policy (north korea is threatening to launch nukes on us, we want.
