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State Actors

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  • Declare/wage wars
  • Sign treaties etc.
  • at the global level without being a state
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individuals always retain power, to refuse, to choose wether something is bad, cruel, immoral

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UN = United Nations

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Collection of states that give the UN power

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NGO’s = non governmental organizations

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Eg MSF, Red Cross, Amnesty international

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State

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Need to have a population, territory, and sovereignty (legal authority)

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State has a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence (only one’s who can formally declare war)
Domestically?
Outside borders?

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D: police. “To serve and protect”. Part of “us”
OB: military. Us vs them mentalities

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Sovereignty

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Chain of hierarchy, competitive system between states, ensures that the global situation will be competitive, stressed

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Systematic causes of war

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  • pre-existing conditions states get caught up in. ie. ideologies
  • clusters of power who are more likely to cause conflict
  • wars are predictable depending on global situations
  • more general
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Situational causes of war

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  • all of the things that provide this particular conflict

- more specific

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Alliances

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Give states a sense of solidarity at the global level

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Real Politik

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All that matter is the well being of the state

  • the enemy of my enemy is my friend
  • ally with an enemy and then turn on them after
  • worry about tomorrow, tomorrow
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Raisin d’Etat

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State has its own logic, may have to do things for security reasons which usually wouldn’t be condoned

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What does coercion get us at the global level?

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  • deterrence
  • internal cohesion
  • arms races
  • attribution error
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Deterrence

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“Don’t mess with us were strong”

  • only works if opponent thinks you are capable
  • need to show credibility (follow through on threats)
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Internal cohesion

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  • might distract population

- safety valve -> send volatile men to war

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Arms races

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  • makes other states nervous

- militarily grow -> keeping up with other states weaponry

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Attribution error

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  • we give motives to our opened we would never give ourselves
    example: when we set up weapons we’re trying to deter others, but when they do it their being hostile.
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Advisors/Experts

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  • CIA, ministry of foreign affairs
  • leaders rely on to make decisions
  • excluding bad news: group won’t want to let the person down, telling them what they want to hear
    Example: war of Vietnam, NSA -> weapons in Iraq-> GW Bush
    -attribution error
    -time constraints: everything is urgent
    -groupthink: unfamiliar ideas get streamed out, isolate different thoughts, repress independent thinkers
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We can talk about conflicts based on

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Intensity

Technology

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Intensity

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-high: huge battles, battle field, orchestrated
-low: small attacks, skirmishes
Example: Afghanistan, Iraq

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Technology

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  • high: guided missiles, bombs, drones, etc

- lows: guns, clubs, machetes, I.e.d.s, etc