Conflict, Security, & Cooperation

• Give two reasons why the severity of war has increased over the centuries.
• What reason helps to explain the increase of intrastate conflict over especially the last century?
• What makes it difficult for states to combat terrorism?
• What is state terrorism?
• What is the difference between unconventional and conventional uses of force?
• What issues interfere with limiting and/or reducing arms?
• What is collective security? 
• Why would ECOWAS, a regional economic organization, care about military security in Western Africa?
• What is the difference between UN peacekeeping and UN peace enforcement (also called political missions or peacemaking by the UN)? 
  • If you'd like to see where there are operations, check out these links: peacekeeping, peacemaking (Political Missions); another agency focuses on peacebuilding (here is its agenda).
• What is the likelihood that states will agree to the abolition of war?