GS101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Islamism, De Jure, Collective Security
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Chapter 7: armed conflict - causes and outbreak. War is well defined as an actual, intentional, and widespread armed conflict between groups of people. Groups are within one country - civil war. Groups are in different countries - classic international warfare. Armed conflict is the use of weapons and physical violence with the intention of inflicting damage and harm upon people in an effort to get them to do what you want. Clausewitz - war is an act of violence, intended to compel our opponent to fulfill our will . There have been over 200 wars in the past 100 years alone (as defined, and with a minimum of 1,000 battlefield deaths), meaning there are 2 new wars every year. Major us wars since wwi - costs in constant 2008 us dollars. According to the realist, war is all about power, with military force one of the most potent means of getting others to comply with one"s will.
