The persistence of war (104)

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What is the 'Thucydides Trap'?
A rising power confronting an established power
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What are the two types of war? (Vasquez 1996)
Wars of rivalry (between equals), wars of inequality (wars between unequals)
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What is a total war? (Vasquez 2009 - 1st dimension)
Huge societal mobilisations and serious political change e..g destruction of another state, removal of gov etc
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What is a limited war? (Vasquez 2009 - 1st dimension)
Fewer resources and personnel, marginal changes in territory, economics or political rights
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What is a dyadic war? (Vasquez 2009 - 2nd dimension)
A war between two actors
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What is a complex war? (Vasquez 2009 - 2nd dimension)
Wars between 3 or more actors
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Bandura's social learning theory
(individual level theory)
Aggression is learned from social environment e.g. home, family, peers, religion etc, role models are important, reinforcement is important
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Steps to war theory (Vasquez 1996)
(state level theory)
Starts with territorial conflict, depends on how this problem is dealt with if war happens, if response is force the crises follow, often leads to war
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Polarity theory (system level theory)
How the distribution of power influences stability and peacefulness (realist theory)
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Deutsch and Singer (1964) Multipolarity
More power means more interaction opportunities which help peace and attention is diffused rather than concentrated
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Waltz (1964) Bipolarity
Caution is generated by the possibility that anything could erupt into conflict between only two actors
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Wohlforth (1999) Unipolarity
Hegemonic rivalry is removed, lack of ambiguity
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Monteiro (2009, 2011) argument against unipolarity
it provides incentives for other types of wars e.g. unipole against other states or other states only
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What is a Militarized interstate dispute?
conflict short of war directed at another states government, official representatives, official forces, property or territory
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Maoz (2004) 4 groups of states - Pacifists
states that did not engage in any conflict throughout their history
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Maoz (2004) 4 groups of states - normal
states that have engaged in a little sporadic conflict during their history
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Maoz (2004) - conflict prone
states that have engaged in relatively high amounts of conflict during their history but conflict is sporadic not sustained
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Moaz (2004) - fightaholics
states engaged in excessively high amounts of conflict in a sustained manner
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What are the two types of war? (Vasquez 1996)

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