Review for Quiz/Test 2: Peace and War
I have listed below the terms and concepts from this section of the course. As per the previous test, you should not only be able to find the terms that are linked together, but be able to understand how the terms are linked up and down. If you have any questions, I'll be happy to answer them. We covered a lot of ground, so this is a long list.
War and Violence, Violence as part of Bargaining
Rationality and War
Sovereignty applied to Foreign Policy
Sovereignty as cause of war
Anarchy vs. Hierarchy
Power (different dimensions)
Models of Peace and War
Deterrence
Revisionist States/Status Quo States
State Sovereignty Perspective
World Order Perspective
Hegemony, US power
Reasons for violating sovereignty
Objections to Sovereignty
Human Rights Issues
Failed States
Genocide
Doctrine of Preemption
Organization/History of UN
Iraq and Sovereignty
Terrorism
Terrorists Acts
Objectives/Purposes of Terrorism
Justifications for Terrorism
Terrorists as criminals or prisoners of war
"Enemy Combatants"
Sponsorship of Terrorism
Causes of Terrorism: society, psychological, states
Al Qaeda as heirarchy and network
Antiterrorism, Counterterrorism
Ethnic Conflict
Civilizations (Huntington)
Arguments pro and con on Huntington
Water in Mid East
Oil in Azerbaijan/Armenia
Sierra Leone
National Missile Defense (argument, pros & cons)
Security Dilemma
Arms Racing
Multilateral versus Unilateral
Externalities of US Missile Shield
posted by Dr. David Hauser at 12:02 PM
7 Comments:
Hi,
I have been making a study guide and can not seem to find a couple of terms that were on the study guide. It would be greatly appreciated if you could help me out. Thank you
Sierra Leone, Ethnic Conflict,enemy combatants, sponsorship of terrorism
Hi,
I have been making a study guide and can not seem to find a couple of terms that were on the study guide. It would be greatly appreciated if you could help me out. Thank you
Sierra Leone, Ethnic Conflict,enemy combatants, sponsorship of terrorism
What are the justifications for terrorism? I cannot find them in my notes.
Sierra Leone is one of the three conflicts talked about in the oddball Snow (the Cases book) chapter. We talked about it last class.
Ethnic conflict was a long discussion relating to the Huntington "Clash of Civilization" article. I went through Huntington's argument, described where it was successful at explaining the world (and where it failed), then talked about several complaints/opposed arguments relating to it.
Sponsorship of terrorism relates to the idea of "state sponsored terrorism", which is when a state acts to back up a terrorist group for it's own reasons. We talked about historical examples of this, and and why states have chosen to do this.
Justifications of terrorism asks you to think of the reasons that states and terrorist organizations have used to justify their actions, and why terrorists choose to use terror (as opposed to other forms of political disagreement - violent and not). In a roundabout way, it relates to the "one mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter" discussion.
I don't think my interpretation of Anarchy vs. Heirarchy is correct. Could someone explain?
and, are we supossed to know specifics for Terrorist Attacks, (eg. 9/11)?
Mary,
Anarchy versus Hierarchy is somewhat complicated. There is an explanation in the Kelleher & Klein book. The key is that the world is "anarchic" because sovereignty disallows any hierarchy (all states, as sovereign, are equal). Recongnize that "anarchy" in this context means something entirely different from the normal dicionary definition.
As for terrorism and 9/11, yes you should know the general outline of what happened. I didn't teach it directly, since I figured it had happened recently enough that students would know about it.
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