POLI 360- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 206 pages long!)

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

Document Summary

In order to create a peaceful environment you need to think about these problems : risks of arms race, competition. Measures to reduce this: economic interdependence, us and china are economically interdependent yet they are still at odds with each other (arms race, democratic neighbors tend to be less conflictual. Security broadly defined: if a state is able to withstand external force. Schoolgirls taken away and put in captivity: states can be run by mafia that do not care about the general public. Manageability: high politics versus low politics, military security versus economic security. Traditional concern: countries have traditions and don"t want to leave them. What determines how approach security: threat environment, geography / geo-politics, resources, history, historical experiences in territory. Sidebar example of external fighting because you have never seen the. Pain of war: us obama made apology to laos, offered million for bomb removal. Europeans & japan have seen the pain of war: now reluctant to fight.