POL 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Late Bloomer, International Security, Warsaw Pact

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 1102
• Professor: Daniel Pierre- Antoine

Document Summary

Readings: spiegel et al. , world politics in a new era, chapters 3-4 & 7-8. Allen sens and peter stoett, global politics: origins, currents, directions, p. 189. International war (interstate war: between 2 or more states, the main focus of international relations, what sovereignty should prevent, what the un should prevent or stop. Civil war (communal war; internal conflict: between factions, ethnic groups, etc, sometimes after collapse of the government ( failed state", connection with humanitarian intervention debate, can lead to international war. Security: a traditional definition: a narrow definition, two dimensions, national security. A commonly used phrase: international peace and security . Polarity: the distribution of power (spiegel p. 249-255: unipolarity: one uncontested state. Variation: hegemonic state (most powerful but can"t act alone). Ex: britain in the 1800s; us since 1945: bipolarity: two roughly equal states. Ex: cold war (us & russia: multipolarity: three or more roughly equal states. Ex: europe in 1648 and the world before world war ii.