design aworld of states best able to co-exist with out war
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1) If you were designing a world of states best able to co-exist without war, what would your states be like? You may consider the design of states' political systems, economic systems, educational institutions, civil-military relations, national cultures/ideas/values, foreign and defense policies, or any other national attributes you believe are relevant.
Confine your remarks to a few (2-5) attributes. Explain why you think they matter most.
Also, please indicate how much you think war would diminish if all the world's states followed your design.
Use historical evidence drawn from course readings and lectures.
2) In Perception and Misperception in International Politics (chapter 3) Robert Jervis notes that sometimes unyielding policies cause war by provoking a conflict-spiral, while sometimes concessions cause war by encouraging aggressors to make more demands in the false expectation that the other will grant these demands, and to disbelieve the other's warnings that it will fight rather than concede further.
Which problem occurs more often in the historical cases covered in this course?
Under what conditions does each model apply?
What policy prescriptions follow from your answer? How could past policy makers have avoided the spirals or deterrence failures that you discuss?
3) What was the single most potent and preventable cause of war that operated in the cases covered in this class? Explain why your war-cause is both potent and preventable. Also identify one or two other war-causes that you believe are less potent and/or less preventable, and explain why they are less potent and/or preventable than the prime cause you identify.
4) What foreign policy should the United States adopt to keep itself and the world at peace? Some people argue an activist U.S. foreign policy only leads to U.S. entanglement in wars like World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. In this view few wars are prevented, while more are caused or intensified, by U.S. activism. Others argue that an isolationist U.S. policy permits wars among other states; then the U.S. is eventually drawn in, as in 1917, 1941, and 1950, to settle wars that it could have prevented by early action. They suggest a paradox: "To preserve peace, we must threaten war."
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