POLS 2900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: International Court, Private Military Company, Loaded Question
10 Apr 2016
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Expected to have 90% of civilians casualties. Beginning of the use of private militaries, soldiers fighting for the own country. Militaries got smaller around the world, and many skilled trained workers were out of work and many of the private military companies emerged. Are about political factions seeking control over resources available to the country, like lumber, diamonds, and precious metals. Elements to these wars are they may be civil wars in nature, but there actually completely integrated into the global economy because they are main goal is to extract resources that are normally shipped around the world. Characters of post ww period: light weapons, small arm, direct intimate violence, ethnic cleansing, disruption of families (ex: child soldiers) Liberals: predict when conflicts do arise they will be greater opportunities for international relations to do what there supposed to so, undermines the liberal predictions, the rise of international relations. Terrorism became the major conflict after 9/11.
