POL 202 Int. Relations Lecture 7 Outline of Last Lecture I. Prisoners Dilemmaa. What roles and decisions cause dilemmasII. A collaboration Problema. Public Goodsb. Examplesc. Facilitating CooperationIII. CooperationIV. Why Follow RulesV. World PoliticsOutline of Current Lecture I. War is puzzlingII. Why do they do war?III. Mexican American WarIV. Wars occur:I. Bargaining failureV. Core of the analysisI. Definition of warII. Definition of interstate warIII. Definition of civil warIV. ConflictsCurrent LectureI. War is puzzlinga. Why wars occur?b. WWI was the first mechanized wari. Claimed 15 million livesc. Wars among states in the 20th century led to 40 million deaths directlyd. In 2007 US spent 4.3 trillion fighting ten wars in its historye. Afghanistan and Iraq could end ip costing up to 3 trillion dollarsII. Why do they do to war?a. Territoryb. Policiesc. Ideologyi. Explanations are incompleteii. Explaining war requires us to explain why the actors failed to reach an agreementIII. Mexican American Wara. War broke out in 1846 in the US and New Mexicob. Both sides would have been better off if Mexico had accepted the initial offerIV. Wars occur:a. As a result of a bargaining failurei. One sides gain is at another sides lossii. Two sides fail to reach an agreementiii. Fail because:1. Incomplete information2. Commitment to terms of deal is questionable3. Disputed good is hard to divideV. Core of the Analysisa. Promoting peaceful conflict resolution requires effort to:i. Increase costs of conflictii. Promote transparencyb. War: event involving the organized use of military force nu at least two parties that’s satisfies some minimum threshold of severityi. It is not:1. Spontaneous disorganized violence2. mass killings against nonviolent groups3. Case of brief of minor clashesii. What do states fight over?1. Interstate war: the main parties to the conflict are states2. Civil War: when actors are within the state3. All wars are fought over things of valuea. Purpose is not to fight-but to obtain4. Territory is often a good that may:a. Contribute to the wealth of state through industrial or agricultural resourcesb. Have military or strategic valuec. Be valuable for ethnic cultural or historical reasonsd. Economically valued territory is less conflict prone5. A conflict can arise when a state enacts a policy that benefits6. Conflicts over a regime type or the composition of another’s
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