1. 1st Exam on 10/8 at 11am
Covers G&P, chapters 1-5, plus class notes.
For the exams, you must know both your section # and your student id #.
There will be no make-up exams offered for sickness/medical reasons/personal reasons including a death in the family unless you are able to: 1) provide documentation and 2) give me advance notice that you will miss the exam on the scheduled date.
Exam has 2 parts: 1) 20 multiple choice (MC) questions and 2) 1 essay question.
MC questions come from G&P, especially end of chapter terms
and from US foreign policy lecture (bureaucracies and leaders).
All the possible essay questions will be posted on my website by Sunday night:
For the essay question, you have only 1 side of an 8x11 page (no more!).
You must write neatly and use paragraphs with topic sentences.
No re-dos and no extra credit offered.

2. Outline for 9/26: Interstate Conflict and War
Conflicts of Interest
Extended focus on territorial conflict
Conflicts of Ideas
Clash of Civilizations
Theories of War

3. 2 Questions about International Conflict/War
Why is there conflict between/among nation-states?
Why do some of these conflicts lead to war, while others do not?
Conflict
War
Conflict ≠ War
Definition of Conflict – a difference in preferred outcomes in a bargaining situation
Definition of War – the use of military force to resolve differences in preferred outcomes
Examples of major conflict that did not lead to war?

4. 1st Question: Why is there conflict between/among nation-states?
Conflicts of Interest
Governmental
Economic
Territorial
Irredentism
Secession
Disputed borders

5. Arab Irredentist Claims on Israel

6. Secession from Yugoslavia
Bosnia
Croatia
Macedonia
Montenegro
Serbia
5a Kosovo
5b Vojvodina
6 Slovenia

7. India-Pakistan Disputed Border in Kashmir

8. China-Japan Conflict over Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands

9. Conflicts of Ideas
Ethnic
Religious
Ideological

10. Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations (1993)
Major Civilizations:
Western (red)
Latin American (green)
African (blue)
Islamic (yellow)
Hindu (lime)
Orthodox (brown)
Sinic (pink)
Japanese (tan)

11. 2nd Question: Why do some of these conflicts lead to war, while others do not?
Theories of war – must explain both war and peace
must also explain multiple wars (not just a single war)
Dependent variable is war and peace
Could be many independent variables at different levels of analysis
Individual level
Leaders are sometimes irrational (miscalculate costs and benefits)
or risk-acceptant

12. Domestic level
1) Institutional explanation for the democratic peace
2) Diversionary war hypothesis

13. Interstate level
1) Normative explanation for the democratic peace
2) Incomplete information about relative military capabilities and resolve

14. Global level
Shifts in the offense/defense advantage
Mobility technology favors the offense
Does this make war more or less likely?
Firepower technology favors the defense