Violence in World Politics
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- Created on: 10-01-18 13:37
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Why does politics turn to violence?
Realists on war
- War is the inevitable result of the anarchic state's system
- No mechanism to resolve conflicts of interest
- The use of force is the ultimate arbiter
- War occurs because states are self-interested, pursuing power and security
- This is a systemic/structural explanation of why war occurs.
Kenneth Walt
Man, the state, and war (1954)
- "With many sovereign states, with no system of law enforceable among them, with each state judging its grievances and ambitions according to the dictates of its own reason or desire- conflict, sometimes leading to war is bound to occur"
Critical questions?
Does the structural analysis fully explain the phenomenon of war?
Key question: What is at stake politically in the realist conceptualisation of war?
- Posits was as 'natural' and unavoidable
- Renders the 'domestic sphere invisible and irrelevant
Militarism and Milirisation
- Militarism: a society which believes strong military force should be maintained and used aggressively to defend…
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