Sunday, October 14, 2007

Extra Credit Book for October

Sorry I'm so late getting this up. The extra credit book for this month is "Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil" by John Ghazvinian. A link to Amazon is here, though you can buy the book from anyone you want.

Figure on having it read by the first week of November (that way we can read on in November and talk about it the first week of December).

If you have any questions, let me know.

Sunday, October 07, 2007

Review Sheet for "Peace and War" Quiz

Hopefully you know by now that the Quiz for the Peace and War section of the course is this Tuesday (October 9th). Here are the terms/concepts you should know for the second test. If you have any questions, post them here and I'll answer. As I mentioned in class, you should not only know the terms on the list, but how they relate to the terms above and below.

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
UN role in Interventions since 1990
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
Antiterrorism, Counterterrorism
Ethnic Conflict
Civilizations (Huntington)
Arguments pro and con on Huntington
Nuclear Proliferation/Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)
National Missile Defense (argument, pros & cons)
Security Dilemma
Arms Racing
Multilateral versus Unilateral
Externalities of US Missile Shield
North Korea, Iran, and Nuclear Terrorism