POLSCI 3Q03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 0: Brinkmanship, Geopolitics, Lebensraum
20 Mar 2018
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In a simple world there would be good (democratic) vs. bad (authoritarian) states. Isolationists: idea that the us should make all democratic via example (peace) Interventionist: democratic states need to intervene in other states" affairs to make them democratic. Issue with this approach is that war is seen as the way to create peace: war and democracy: empirical evidence. Study of war (wright: attempted to prove democracies = peace because central power of the government is limited via constitutional restrictions, dispersion of power etc, political accountability means public support is needed so unpopular politics (ex. And the less libertarian, the more violence: conflicting theorists found that it was the period chosen that was biased, chan found significant differences in war behaviour after 1973, 1816-1972 = positive relation between democracy and war. Imperialism resulted from a maladjustment in the capitalist system.
