INR 2002 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Nato Bombing Of Yugoslavia, Security Dilemma, Preemptive War
Document Summary
People everywhere fight each other in several different ways: interstate conflict (two or more states) has gone down over time, intrastate conflict (one state) has gone up and is quite common now. Because of the problem of nuclear weapons. (15,000 nuclear weapons in total today, 9 countries have them) Gdp: gross domestic product (how a country"s economy is doing?: gdp per capital: meaning the individual"s wealth in a country, united states has the highest gdp and highest energy consumption: population, The tasks of a researcher of international relations is to explain and not argue: ex. Regime: how are they governed: explain why countries are different by describing it and then maybe one day. Prescribing to make the world a better place: ex. Peloponnesian war: used as an ancient parallel to wwii, athens being u. s. due to huge navy, sparta being germany due to sparta having a huge army.
