POL380H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: International Financial Institutions, Humorism, Kenneth Waltz
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Pol308 / july 7 / 1 (lecture 1 was the library seminar) Lecture 2: ir as a state-centric discipline: origins and implications. If you rob a bank, its reasonable that you get arrested. But it isnt legitimate for manager to track you down and lock you up. Pol308 / july 7 / 2: states vary in how strong their control over territory i. e. domestic sov (somalia has less control than canada) World war i: fought almost 100 years ago, started on july 28 1914 to nov 11 1918, total casualties over 37 million with 8. 5 million killed. 60,000 canadians killed: over 1,000 uoft students/staff killed. In 1911, pop of canada was 7. 2 million. *vid: outbreak of wwi (bbc two: states are main actors, but soldiers doing the fighting, state-centric solutions. Focus on state so state-based explanation of what happened i. e. states concerned about power. Also end up with state-based solutions; most of preventative solutions have to do with states.
