POSC240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Power Transition Theory, Archduke Franz Ferdinand Of Austria, Serbian Nationalism

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POSC240
• Professor: Ellerby Kara

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War is also known as armed conflict : can use either term. Arms" includes anything material, i. e. other than corporal strength and/or psychological. Otherwise it is classified differently: genocide, massacres, pogroms. Intermediate= 25 deaths per year and total of 1000 over conflict history. War= more than 1,000 battle deaths per year. Nuclear weapons, biological weapons as well as chemical weapons are included as bombs or other explosives regardless of how they have been constructed. The use of airplanes on 11 september also qualifies as use of armed force. o o o o o o. What makes a war civil o o o o violence. Dichotomization of the concept highly problematic (extra-state, non-state, genocide ) There are 2,3,4 or 5 types of war (depending on who you ask) Intrastate war with outside troop support for either side. Professor ellerby: wars best understood as transnational incidents/events of political.