POL 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hegemony, Preemptive War, Collective Security
31 Jan 2017
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3 criteria: organized, deliberate violence by an identifiable political authority. Ex. not riots: >1000 battle deaths in a year, both sides must have some real capability to harm each other. Ex. not genocide bc people being killed can"t fight back the same. Intrastate = violence within a state (that has some type of international characteristic to it) Has become more common than interstate war. Establishment of a govt for control of a failed state . Ethno-nationalist movements seeking autonomy or secession from the state. Something about those individuals are different from the govt and they want to be run by someone who"s more similar. Wars between ethnic, clan, or religious groups. Bashar al-assad"s govt responded w/violent crackdowns in syria. Conflict morphed from peaceful protests to armed rebellions after months of siege. Free syrian army first took up arms in 2011. Has become international in character bc of us, russia, turkey, etc involvement. Involve massive loss of life and widespread destruction.
