POLS 2100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Naval Warfare, Evan Luard, Aea
9 Feb 2017
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Charles tilly: how war made states and vice versa. Since 1900, the world has seen 237 new wars, both civil and international, killing around 1000 people per year. In 2000 this number increased to 275 wars and over 115 million deaths in battle. War has become rarer among the greater powers: france, the united kingdom, the soviet. Union, west germany, and the united states, and china. Optimistically, it can be said that greater powers have found better ways of settling their differences than incessant wards. Pessimistically it can be said that greater powers have exported to the rest of the world, and have saved their own energy for destroying each other in concentrated bursts. Either way it can be observed that powerful states are partially exempted from war on their own terrains and thus have been less sensitive to the horrors of war.
