POLI 360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Tzu
13 Oct 2017
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Most important thing in a paper: research question, why something is happening opposed to what happened, clear focus. Midterm: 2 short essays pick 1, 8 ids choose 5 out of that, examples of ids, diversionary theory of war, scapegoat theory, very important to introduce readings. Domestic politics: unlike the international system with spread out actors the actors are not spread out. Argument it comes out of its historical experience. Use of massive force to achieve its objectives. Because it has affected minimal warfare on domestic soil. Regime types: democracies, rarely fight each other, if 2 democracies are neighbors even if they have a conflict they don"t usually engage in war, reasons, alliances, treaties, accountability of the government to the people, 1. Structural: non-democracies, political situation is zero sum, some regions where they did not fight many inter-state wars, but may intra-state wars, example: latin america.
