POLI 360 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Wage War, Operation Spectrum, Brinkmanship

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

Document Summary

Clausewitz on use of force: why was war so limited in 18th c, and what changed with napoleon"s all-encompassing nature of his campaigns, and could war ever return to its limited nature. Answer: war was an instrument of politics war can only unfold to the extent that politics didn"t place a restraint on it. Arrival of nuclear weapons: hope that awareness of the result of nuclear war would deter all war (status quo maintained) No one would accept risk of engaging in war with the us (low confidence in deterrence: using fear of nuclear war as instrument of policy, even when obvious nuclear war would be disastrous, thomas schelling. Processes by which limited war - > absolute; shows how an opponent may look to negotiate end to a developing war when they sense they will lose. The conduct and consequences of humans relations in the context of actual or possible armed conflict.