POLI 360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Time Horizon, Attack On Pearl Harbor, Adobe Freehand

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 360
• Professor: T V Paul

Document Summary

International sys: who will provide systemic leadership, whose rules will govern, who will est. world order. Like domestic civil wars to settle domestic leadership. Involve large pt of the world and affect everybody. European phenomenon: why so? (historically, westphalian system very much eur. Even us not in picture until early 20th c. True, as long as there"s powerful state and contenders --> poss. State remains most powerful forever (challengers arise --> capability redistribution, rapid econ. 3 levels of power in intl. sys: material cap. Some cooperate with dominant power and share rights and responsibilities. Nobody really wants them, this is the problem. Confronted with est. order: when arrive, order is not in their favour and they are questioned. Power is unwilling to give away any of their adv: wars are initiated by rising challengers of this group. Challenger starts war before reaches parity with dom. Power (correction to above: war is result of chall.