POST 2230 - REVIEW

1. POST 2230 - REVIEW

2. Understanding War a) What was the main message presented in the documentary “Why We Fight”? - dangers of the military industrial complex b) What are the key concepts covered in the lecture and the GWP (course textbook) reading for the week? - history of the nature of warfare (Thucydides, etc.) - democratic peace thesis - changing character of war; revolution in military affairs  technology (information and weapons); asymmetric warfare; origin in 1st gulf war; critiques of RMA - post-modern war? Role of states? Cultures? Failed states and humanitarian intervention?

3. Understanding Security a) What are the different approaches to understanding security, covered in the lecture and in the readings for the week? - Realism and Neo-Realism, conventional security studies. - Liberal Institutionalism - Social Constructivist - Critical Security Studies (human security)

4. b) What are the key concepts covered in the lecture and the GWP readings for the week? - human security  freedom from fear and freedom from want - conventional security studies  militarization, relative gains, nuclear weapons, strategy, war, etc. - causes of insecurity, and sources of emancipation

5. Terrorism a) Why is it difficult to define terrorism? b) What are the key concepts covered in the lecture and the GWP reading for the week? - defining terrorism (violence? Political intention? State/non-state? Target? Instill fear?) - just causes for use of violence? (weapon of the weak?) - role of technology in changing character of terrorism - “clash of civilizations” as cause of Islamic terrorism, and critiques of this view. - critical perspectives of 9/11 (freedom, democracy, liberty; blowback; imperialism) - how to combat terrorism?

6. c) What does Tilly tell us about terrorism, or how does he enhance our understanding of it? - how to define the terms terror, terrorism and terrorist

7. Nuclear Proliferation • What are the main obstacles to halting nuclear proliferation globally? - lack of enforcement of treaties - power imbalance b/w NWs and non NWS - Cohn, technocratic language - cheating on treaties, relative gains - changing nature of war; non-state actors b) What are the key concepts covered in the lecture and the GWP reading for the week? - History of int’l treaties, non-proliferation regime, etc. - deterrence, “nuclear peace”, MAD - power and discourse, motivations for getting/keeping nuclear technology.

8. International Political Economy • How can we historicize the evolution of the international political economy since the early 20th century until the present? - Great Depression - Keynesianism, embedded liberalism - 70s crises - neoliberalism

9. b) What are the key concepts covered in the lecture and in the GWP reading for the week? - Keynesian economics - central ideas of neoliberalism - effects of neoliberalism in the South - effects in the North - global political economic institutions - Volker shock c) How does Harvey contribute to our understanding of the international political economy?

10. Global Poverty and Development • What are the different approaches to understanding global poverty and development? - poverty as a lack of money to buy material needs; lack of successful economy and growth; measured by GDP per capita, etc.; best overcome with advice of experts - poverty involves material and non-material needs; cultural values, democracy, ecology, etc., are important factors; development is a bottom-up, emancipatory process.

11. b) What are the key concepts covered in the lecture and GWP reading for the week? • Growth vs. sufficiency • Origins and causes of poverty? • Millennium Development Goals • Critical views of “development” • Hunger, food security, and globalization

12. Commodifying and Celebritizing Development • How can we historicize the evolution of development’s representation? - Pornography of poverty - Making development sexy b) What are the key concepts covered in the lecture and readings for the week? - commodifying and celebretizing development - making development sexy - millennium development goals - product (red) - criticisms of (red) model for development

13. c) What are the main arguments presented by Richey and Ponte? - “Product RED, in its positive spin, masks the social and environmental relations of trade and production that underpin poverty, inequality and disease.” - (red) re-establishes “white man’s burden” making benovlence trendy, cool, and youthful. Cameron and Haanstra? - relations of power unchallenged - northern charity most important - “Northern ‘selves’ are portrayed as beneficent and as possessing the wisdom and agency needed to help Southern ‘others’, while the structural issues that sustain global poverty remain in the shadows.”

14. Gender in World Politics a) What are the different approaches to understanding gender? - varieties of feminism: liberal, Marxist, socialist, radical, post-modern, post-colonial b) What are the key concepts covered in lecture and the GWP reading for the week? - patriarchy, double burden - gender, analysis through a gendered lens - gender inequality globally.

15. Human Rights • What are the different approaches to understanding human rights? - first, second, third generation rights. - different views that privilege different kinds of rights b) What are the key concepts covered in the lecture and the GWP reading for the week? - criticisms of current rights regime (feminist, cultural) - humanitarian intervention? Enforcing rights - freedom from want? Political, economic, social rights? - why is it so hard to achieve human rights? Sovereignty, imperialism, capitalism?

16. c) What do Steele and Amoureux tell us about the benefits and limits of NGO monitoring of genocide? - idea of the panopticon - case studies of Rwanda and East Timor.