AS.190.209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Security Dilemma, Civic Nationalism, Sigmund Freud
4 Sep 2016
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Examine internal conflict, prevalence, causes, and importance. Examine two issues related to internal conflict with special concern to the us. The decline of war between states is the critical but often ignored change in international relations. Understanding the causes and cures of international war is at the very heart of realism, but war has increasingly become a subject of less and less relevance. In the post-cold war era, there have only been a handful of wars between countries. There are no great power wars now (last one was wwii) and few wars are on the horizon. The reasons for international peace are many and likely to persist. One has to do with nuclear weapons when countries have nw, going to war with them is likely to be suicidal. Moreover, the costs of war are high in money and blood and the benefits are few. Wealth stems from having a free and entrepreneurial people, not by conquering and suppressing populations.
