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Causes of War 1

Causes of War from 8-28 to 9-25

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1. What is war? 2. What is war simplified as? 1. Influencing political ideas through aggressive military conflict. 2. It is simplified as organized conflict between social groups (usually with different ideologies).
1. What is sovereignty? 2. Do all nation-states possess it? 3. What are the three criteria for a nation to be considered "sovereign"? 1. The quality of having supreme authority over a given territory. 2. Yes. 3. - A recognized legal authority (master of the legal domain). - A monopoly on the legitimate use of force. - Freedom from external interference.
1. What is a nation-state? - A self-identification of a given group of people who live in a territory in which there is one legal authority and a monopoly on the legitimate use of force.
1. What is a nation? - Self-identification of a group of people with a shared common attribute.
1. What is a state? A geographic area with group of people under one unified legal authority that is responsible for making laws, interpreting laws, and enforcing laws and has a monopoly on the legitimate use of force.
1. What are the five types of war? - War of Terrorism - Revolutionary - Imperial/ Colonial - Civil - Interstate WRICCI
1. What is a War on Terror? Example: Minutemen against British or the Contra against Nicaragua. - Terrorism is the use or threatened use of violence for a political objective.
1. What is a Revolutionary War? Example: The American War of Independence, French Revolution (1792-1802), Russia's 1917 October Revolution. - A process whereby a social group tries to affect radical economic, political, and social changes in a given nation-state or region of the world. - It does not have to end in an overthrow of government. Example: The American War of Independence
1. What is an Imperial/ Colonial War? Example: The Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 and the Java War from 1825-1830. - An attempt on the part of one nation-state that possesses sovereignty to engage in a position of preeminence or predominance over another nation that is perceived without sovereignty.
1. What is a Civil War? Example: The American Civil War. - The organized use of violence between two or more social groups in a given territory whereby the goal is the take control of the government to impose new laws and governing, thereby changing policy.
1. What is an Interstate War? Example: WWI, WWII, The Thirty Years War (1618-1648). - A process that involves armed combat operations between two or more nation-states that results in at the very least 1,000 battlefield deaths.
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