POS 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Arms Control, Preventive War, Robert Gates
19 Jan 2018
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Terrorism: continue the fight in syria, afghanistan, and iraq. 28 full members (most of western europe) 38 other states work as partners for peace. Threaten rivals and provoke counter-alliances, reducing security. Countries may be hurt by reckless behavior of allies. Alliances usually collapse when threat that brought them together declines. Most of nato supported us invasion of afghanistan (unlimited war of. France, germany, turkey, and many other nato countries refused to fight in iraq. Crisis for nato (2003) self-defense) (unlimited, preventive war) Us has acted unilaterally and acted against the advice old europe . But europeans still value ties to us. Disarmament = reduction or elimination of weapons. Arms control = regulating arms levels by limiting their growth or restricting their use. Us senate rejected comprehensive test ban treaty. Us declared its intention to store remaining cold war nuclear weapons. Us also announced that it would deploy an active defensive system against ballistic missiles.
