POL 1025 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cuban Missile Crisis, Berlin Blockade, Warsaw Pact
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The quest for physical security: general: short vs long term perspectives, others, related kinds of conflict like civil war, part of human history to engage in war, democide: governments intentional killing- whether by induced. Ex: holocaust: bifurcation thesis: southern hemisphere more conflict Explanation of war: ethological (animal behavior) Scientific study of human behavior behavior of humans evolutionary adaptive trait. Our behavior came from our adaptive evolution. We evolved a killer instinct because otherwise we would not have made it in evolution (we are inherently violent: psychological-sociological. War is learned behavior- if you can learn war, you can unlearn war (sociological) Duals- became ridiculous, people just stopped doing it (unlearned) Women are taught to be nurturing and loving, men are taught to be fighters and soldiers (this is part of learning: ecological-national. Rationalist theory of war: systemic (again) Clash of civilizations- came from samuel huntington. War had been transformed after the cold war.
