HIS103Y1 Lecture 5: Week 3 Notes - Lectures 5 and 6
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Outline: spanish succession, origins of the war, the war of the spanish succession (1701/2 1713/4, the peace of the utrecht (1713/1714) Spanish succession: rise of england/britain to its role as a great power, naval power, power willing to. Ght and pay others to ght on the continent: growing challenge to french power in europe, other states start copying france, Nd their own way to achieve similar power, france"s predominance is in decline, purposeful and explicit application of the balance of power (concept that leaders/ commoners > guiding force of state policy) > an elastic term > concept. Peace is achieved by a balance of state power, when states are strong enough to defend themselves and not defeat another, english concept originally. England/britain > used own power to adjust scales of power in europe. The balance of power is not always peaceful. Britain enters the state system with a goal of balancing. Britain balancing against france, culminating in napoleonic wars.
