SOC 248 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Non-Interventionism, Nuclear Proliferation, Sharia
19 Oct 2017
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Soc 248- lecture notes- lectures 12 + 13 conflict and war. Causes of conflict and war: dominance, defense of national sovereignty, territorial disputes, economic motives/valuable resources, racial/ethnic/tribal/religious differences, government ideology: capitalist, communist, democracy. Issue of establishing power: overruling power, maintaining power, political power, economic power, us very unique in that they could become independent and go on to be a global superpower. Defense of national sovereignty, territorial disputes: big issue right now in middle east in last few decades, perceived that they were being invaded by foreign outsiders ie us, ussr, afghanistan 1979 ussr. Us thought there was wpd but there were not: territorial disputes. Israel promised land because the jewish people were globally attacked in holocaust and post: the promised land happened to fall within palestine"s, will go to war when they feel their nation is being encroached upon by borders another.
