Conflict, War, Empire, Diplomacy & International Order¶

Human Worlds

What you will develop¶

Model conflict and bargaining under coercion, uncertainty, identity, and institutional constraints.

Before you begin¶

Recorded prerequisites:

• Strategic Interaction, Bargaining & Cooperation
• Power, Authority, Legitimacy & Resistance
• States, Law, Constitutions & Public Administration
• Culture, Religion, Ideology, Nationalism & Collective Meaning
• Trade, Global Production, International Institutions & World Economy

Study and practice¶

This is a study outline. A complete practice sequence is not yet available.

• security dilemma
• deterrence
• alliances
• war
• civil conflict
• empire
• colonialism
• diplomacy
• sovereignty
• international order

Security dilemma, deterrence & alliance politics¶

Reconstruct the mechanism, apply it to an unseen case, produce a counterexample/boundary, identify evidence, and defend under changed assumptions.

War, bargaining failure & civil conflict¶

Reconstruct the mechanism, apply it to an unseen case, produce a counterexample/boundary, identify evidence, and defend under changed assumptions.

Empire, colonialism & coercive extraction¶

Reconstruct the mechanism, apply it to an unseen case, produce a counterexample/boundary, identify evidence, and defend under changed assumptions.

Diplomacy, sovereignty & international order¶

Reconstruct the mechanism, apply it to an unseen case, produce a counterexample/boundary, identify evidence, and defend under changed assumptions.

Intended demonstration¶

Crisis bargaining + escalation ladder + historical comparison

This describes the intended standard, not a validated assessment or a claim of mastery.

Reading options¶

Assigned readings, where available, appear in the practice sequence above. These additional recommendations are not all required reading.

• The Strategy of Conflict
• Economy and Society (selected sections on bureaucracy and authority)

Continue¶

Connections above reflect recorded prerequisites, not a compulsory calendar.

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