My Sixth Day of Class (Wars)

The title of today's class is 'why do states fight wars?'
Wars and peace are central concerns in IR.

Realism would answer for the question as follows.....
The causes of wars are:
●Anarchy and self-help system
●Break of Balance of Power in the international system
●Security dilemma

The solutions for wars are:
●Maintain Balance of Power
●Derrerrance

Liberalism would answer as follows......
The causes of wars are:
●Domestic politics
●Failour/lack of democracy and cooperative regimes

The solutions for wars are:
●Cooperation under security dilemma
●Iterated interaction
●international institutions

Marxism would answer as follows........
The causes of wars are:
●Competition over leardership of global economy
●The legacy of colonialism (North-South relations and wars)
●Civil wars and humanitarian intervention
●State failure, terrorism, drug wars
●The export of arms

The solution for wars is:
●Delink from capitalism

Constructivism would answer as follows.......
The causes of wars are:
●Aggresive norms
●Misperception/Misunderstanding
●identity conflict

The solutions for wars is:
●Positive intersubjective understanding

Defineing the causes are very important to solve the problems. Each theory help us to get closer to the truth.