Conflict & War Flashcards
What is Conflict?
A difference in preferred outcomes in a bargaining situation
What is War?
Sustained coordinated violence between political organizations
What constitutes as war?
Involves the use of military force
Is the most destructive, serious, and intense episode of militarized conflict
Must be reciprocated
Occurs between collective political units
What is a governmental conflict of interest?
Conflict over the control of the governments of other states
What is an economic conflict of interest?
Dispute over market access and economic resources
What is a territorial conflict of interest?
Most dangerous issue
Secession
Irredentism
Disputed borders
What is Secession?
The physical withdrawal of one part of a state from a previous political union
What is Irredentism?
The situation where state boundaries separate members of a nation into separate political jurisdictions and where members of the nation seek to shift state boundaries to allow members of the national group to share a common state
What are tangible values for border disputes
Natural resources
Populations
Strategic military location
Port, trade route, canals, etc.
What are intangible values for border disputes?
Ethnic, Linguistic, & Religious composition
Holy lands
Prestige
What are the different conflict of ideas?
Ethnic (large groups of people who share ancestral, language, cultural, or religious ties and a common identity)
Religious (Core of a community’s value system)
Ideological (belief systems)
