AS.190.209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Forego, 1973 Oil Crisis, Al-Qaeda
4 Sep 2016
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Look at this challenge in six areas: role of military force, objectives of international politics, relationship between domestic politics and foreign policy, importance of the state, power, how to achieve peace. Globalization challenge to realism begins with the role of military force whereby those who adhere to the globalization vision argue military force is losing its effectiveness. This is due to the so-called three ends. The first end is nuclear weapons, which make war less likely because people know that war will be suicidal. Moreover, nuclear weapons make you more careful and prudent if you have them; you don"t want to engage in conventional war because it can escalate to nuclear war. And globalization adherents will argue that nuclear weapons aren"t very useable weapons in international politics. All of this makes force and going to war a less attractive option. Moreover, globalization adherents argue that conventional warfare has lost its effectiveness.
