World Conflicts Since 1900

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Schlieffen Plan

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German plan to invade France via Belgium in WW1 1914, claim France they return to Russian unsuccessful

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Triple Entente - allies

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Britain France Russia WWI

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Central Powers

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Germany, Austria-Hungary and later that year, the Ottoman Empire - WWI

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Serbian War 1999

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NATO came, not UN

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ArushaAccords: 1993

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Agreements to end the 3-year-long Rwandan Civil War (between peasant Hutus and aristocratic Tutsis).

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Article 51, UN Charter

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Provides for theright of countries to engage in military action in self-defense, includingcollective self-defense citedby the US as support for the legality of the Vietnam War.

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Torn Countries

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Huntington theory.When civilizations try to affiliate themselves with other civilizations theyare torn countries. No torn country has effectively redefined its civilization.

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Truman Doctrine

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Committed to providingmilitary and economic aid to countries in order to prevent them from falling tocommunism. Formed when Greece and Turkey were struggling with USSR

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Operation Haven

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Started in 1991. (aka, OperationProvide Comfort) US and Gulf War allies to defend anddeliver humanitarian aid to Kurds fleeing northern Iraq after the Gulf War.

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Ogaden War

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broke outin 1977; betweenSomalia and Ethiopia. cold war proxy war

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UNAMIR

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United Nations Assistance Mission forRwanda aid the implementation of the Arusha Accords. UN Security Council Resolution 872, 1993-1996. sovereignty & need for impartiality caused the UNAMIR forces to beincapable of action when the Rwandan genocide broke out in 1994. failure

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Ethnic makeup Iraq

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Majority Shi’ite

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Treaty of Sevres

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Created Iraq 1920 as a League of Nations mandate in the after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire was under British control, and gained independence in 1932 as a Hashemite monarchy, then overthrown. 1968, Qassim was overthrown by the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party.

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Kenneth Walz - Origins of War in Neorealist Theory

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Nuclear weapons help keep cold war cold by ensuring war is less likely because one must KNOW they will win if they fight

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Hans Morgenthau

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Traditional realist, states strive for more power and desire for goods, thought nuclear war changes violence as a means to war

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Neorealism

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power is a possibly useful means, states at risk if they have too much or too little, unit level and structural level causes must be considered , not just power

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Theory of Hegemonic War

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involves all states in the system - a world war, issues - leadership and intl system structure. Robert Gilpin - single strong power, Usees Thucydides' theory of hegemonic war

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Walz - why does war occur?

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War occurs because there is nothing to stop it

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Clash of Civilizations

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Huntington - Cultural differences rather than ideological ones will be source of conflict after cold war, yet people will pull together and fight for a shared ideology

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Security Dilemma

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John Hertz - self help attempts of states to look after their own security to look at their own security needs to lead to rising insecurity for other states, close to realist theory

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Realism Theorists

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Hobbs, Machiavelli

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Munich Treaty

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1938 Germany could take part of Czech

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Center

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first world countries - dependency theorists

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cognitive dissonance

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Festinger - people do not perceive what is contrary to their previously held views

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complex interdependence

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Koehane & Nye - multiple transnational channels that connect societies resulting in complex economic relations becoming important

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Grotian

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Grotius, father of international law, Int Rel lacks central authority but can be subject to rules and norms agreed by states

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high politics

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matters of security and strategic interests of states - realists think there are high and low (welfare issues)

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jus ad bellum

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states rightfully go to war with just cause - normative theory

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jus in bello

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states exercise right conduct in war when the means employed are proportional to the ends sought - normative theory

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neoliberalism

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Koehane - utilitarian and rational, states have interests in common, should try to find commonality

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Chapter VII charter

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UN can pass binding resolutions

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UN first successful collective security measure

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Iraq - china russia did not veto UN troops going there

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Nepal Lessons

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rebellion 2000 because systemic socio economic exclusion and poverty. military repression not completely effective, population does not like it

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Kosovo Lessons

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spill over regional impacted attitudes, diaspora funding used for both sides like guns and butter, informal economy funded rebels

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Burma Lessons 1988

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military successfully paid off rebels to reduce conflict

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Paris Peace Treaties

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end of WWII

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Lome Peace Accord 1999

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RUF, the vice presidency and control of Sierra Leone's diamond mines in return for a cessation of the fighting and the deployment of a UN peacekeeping force to monitor the disarmament process.

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Who won in Sierra Leone

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British defeated RUF 2000

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Oslo Accords

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agreements between the government of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO): signed in Washington, D.C., in 1993

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Camp David Accords

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Anwar El Sadat and Menachem 1978, led directly to 1979 Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty. Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula five-year transitional period of Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza.introduction of Palestinian self-government. end to Israeli settlements in the West Bank.Did not settle the question of East Jerusalem.

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Terrorism

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UN could not agree on a definition - due to self-determination

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Stoessinger Theories

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War is an illness threatening extinction of the human species.

No nation which began a major war this century has won it.

Wars are started by the impotent in this century.

Unless the vanquished are destroyed completely, peace does not last.

Peace settlements negotiated on the basis of equality are much more permanent.

Leader's personalities are crucial at the outbreak of war.

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Somalia War 1990s

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UN intervened for five years no result, withdrew, after govt fell, some order restored, African Union forces there through 2014, some restoration

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What did US peacekeepers insist upon before theystopped bombing Serbia in 1999?

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Milosovich must agree to level of autonomy for Kosovo

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End of Kosovo Conflict 1999

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Russia helped make deal, do not know exactly what was signed

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Rambouillet Agreement

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proposed peace agreement between Yugoslavia and Albanian majority population of Kosovo. (NATO) Yugoslavia refused to accept it, which NATO used as justification to start the Kosovo War.