POL208Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Greek Fire, Hegemony, Al-Qaeda
26 Jan 2016
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Slide 6 on war overview and systemic level. Since the congress of vienna (1815), there have been over 224 interstate wars (between states) and. World war ii was the deadliest war in human history with over 70 million dead. It"s organized and deliberate violence by political authority (so not just a deadly riot) It"s a more lethal form of conflict in which 1000 battle deaths = war. There exists mutual harm from both sides (so it"s not one-sided like a genocide). Inter-state (between states) vs. intra-state (within states eg. civil war) Limited (restricted to a specific time and space) vs. total (large-scale destruction and harm to civilians and major powers involved) Conventional (fought according to rules) vs. unconventional (eg. terrorism and guerilla warfare) Just war (acting in self-defense as a last resort) Ancient weapons include siege machines, greek fire , and medieval armor. There is a fifth revolution that is making its way which is cyber warfare.
