POL SCI 5 Midterm: Untitled document
19 Apr 2016
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States have to focus on security, not in what happens to other countries. Believe in cooperation close borders and focus on state population. States need to cooperate to solve the hiv crisis because the virus crosses borders. It was stable because the world was. Nato and warsaw pact helped to bipolar. Only looking at two states: us n. Would have failed in predicting the peaceful end. Some parts og germany were depending on us for aid. Germany was one of the stronger countries in the multipolar system in. Germany going to war with russia and the serbs which led to germany attacking france just in case they would block germany in, etc. The perceived interests of the actors prevented them from coming together. Wwi could be considered proof of the realist assumption of security as the most important issue. Despite high levels of economic cooperation, countries found themselves unable to cooperate on security issues.
