Chapter 3: Why Are There Wars? §

(F) Day of the week: Saturday Class: IS203 Created Time: December 28, 2019 5:16 PM Database: Class Notes Database Date: December 28, 2019 5:16 PM Days Till Date: Passed Last Edited Time: June 9, 2021 10:42 AM Type: Reading Notes

• What are the different dimensions of costs of war?
  • Human Life
  • Injure, displace, impoverish, disease humans
  • Economic Costs
• Given the costs of war, why do states go to war?
  • Conflicting Interest
  • Failure to reach settlement

What is the Purpose of War? §

• What do states fight over?
  • Goods: Territories
    • Resources: oil, natural gas, minerals
    • Adding to state’s resources at disposal
    • Strategic valued land
    • Ethnic, cultural, or historical valued lands
  • State Policy: A State policy that benefit their interests but harm others interests
  • Conflict Over Regime Type: is using military force to change regimes in another state.