War and strife

Question

Characteristics of civil wars:

Answer 1

Often last long, both combatants and civilians are killed, disease spread, money is diverted from economic development to purchasing arms. Examples ar e in Ethiopia and many other african states.

Answer 2

Interstate wars are between sovereign states, intrastate wars take place within states

Answer 3

-they rely on balancing power
a limit of it is its inability to manage security during periods of rapid change.

-they also rely on deterrence to threaten force. for this to work states must build up arsenals to present a credible threat. Deterrence cant work against terrorists that have nothing to loose.

Answer 4

Just war tradition states war is just when:

-there is a just cause ((self) defence)
-declaration of intent by a competent authority (security council)
-leaders need correct intentions (establish peace)
-leaders also need to have tried all other options

Answer 5

-realists think war is a necessary condition of interstate politics, it can be managed but not removed. Prisoners dilemma attaches to realism, and the security dilemma. Humans go against transcending war.

-liberalists think transcending war is possible but will take a while. See institutions as enablers of economic+other forms of interaction between states. Use democratic peace to support argument, democratic dont go to war!

-Radical also believe in transcending war, war ended when state ended, self interest not natural

-Constructivists think war is not necessary or inevitable

Answer 6

According to realists and radicalists they are the ones to blame (realists think war breaks out because nothing is stopping it)

however, this may be simplistic. War often breaks out because of interaction between various factors at different levels of analysis

Answer 7

According to realists and liberalists individuals are usually not the cause of war in general, they are organized into societies and states

Answer 8

according to liberal and radicals, states are usually not the sole repsonsible ones for the outbreak of war, states want peace.

Answer 9

-they call on international community or international institutions to coordinate actions.

-rely on collective security, based on proposition that agressive and unlawful use of force by any state against another must be stopped by united action. doesnt always work of course.

-rely on arms control and disarmament, many treaties involving it, less arms more security. but doesnt delete security dilemma- not only arms make other countries insecure.

Answer 10

Total wars are armed conflicts involving massive loss of life and widespread destruction with many participants including major powers. Fought for reasons like religion/ideas/to conquer

Limited wars are when not all arms are unleashed, no nuclear weapons. An example is arab-isreali disputes.