POLI/
Bill Newmann
The exam format will be the same as the previous exam: 60 multiple-choice questions
Terms that are preceded by an asterisk (*) are dealt with in the readings!
Remember for the readings in The Rivals that I’m looking for the big picture issues, not all the details. You’ll see terms from the book below.
List of Terms:
Level of analysis concept
War and Peace:
Clausewitz major premise about war and politics
Causes of War and Peace:
1. Human Nature: Individual level of analysis
War as human nature
learning peace?
*2. Balance of Power: Realism: system level
*Number of poles of power
War caused by imbalance of power
*WW I caused by an imbalance of power
Peace achieved through stable balance of power
Concert of
3. Power Transition/Long Cycle Theory: Realism: system level
peace imposed by a dominant power
war caused by challenges to that dominant power
The 100 year cycle of war and peace
Implications (US decline?)
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*Terms from the Rivals
(Note that I place the terms here because I want you to think about this in the
context of Balance of Power and Power Transition Theories)
*Rise of China and
India
*Economic growth
in all three nations
*ASEAN
*China’s sense of
being encircled by US allies
*India’s sense of
being encircled by China
*Mistrust of Japan
because of WW II
*Unit 731
*Economic growth
first, environmental concerns second
*Border Disputes
*Possible
flashpoints
*Taiwan
*Arunachal Pradesh
*Kashmir
*East China Sea
4. Nuclear
Revolution (individual level as people fear nuclear war or state level as state
power prevents war)
Peace caused by the fear of nuclear weapons
War caused by irrational, outlaw states
5. Interdependence: Idealism: (system or state level)
Global Economic Marketplace as cause of peace
Free Trade
Interdependence
war caused by outsiders, non-free traders, closed economies
6. Democratization: Idealism: (state level)
Democracies don’t fight each other
Reasons why?
Democracies fight non-democracies
Democratizing states as more likely to fight wars
Nationalism and the transition to democracy
International Organizations
*IGOs
*supranational global organization
*trends in UN membership and why was there an increase since 1945
*nonstate actor
failure of League and coming of WW II
United
Nations
*UN Charter
Article 2
*UN General Assembly
*voting procedures
*UN Security Council
*voting procedures
*Permanent 5 and veto
*ECOSOC
*UN Secretary General
*Secretariat
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Kofi Annan
Ban Ki-Moon
Secretariat
UN Functions concerning security (issues of conflict and cooperation):
1. *Collective Security
*Chapter 7 of the UN Charter
Collective Security during the Cold War: No consensus at the UNSC
Collective security after the Cold War: the Persian Gulf War
2. Peacekeeping
*Chapter 6
Border/Decolonization problems
Consent rule
3. *Peacekeeping after the cold war
*Peacebuilding:
4. *Peace Making/Enforcement:
*Responsibility to Protect (R2P)
Lessons of Peace Enforcement (see PPT slide)
*Regional Organization
*European Union
NGOs
Definition
Transnational advocacy networks
The impact of globalization on NGOs
Impact of communications revolution
Corporate vs. Network structures
Good News
Lobbying and action-oriented NGOs
Human Rights Watch
International Campaign to
The Bad News: Terrorism
*Al-Qaeda: An NGO that uses violence to make its point
*How globalization makes terrorism possible
*Definitions of terrorism: Purposes: to cause pain that will lead to a change in governmental policy
Who attacked on 9/11?
*Osama bin Laden
*Al-Qaeda (AQ) terrorist organization
Why is Al-Qaeda important?
global power
Non-state actor with strategic goals
AQ’s ideology
*Transnationalists vs. nationalists
Chart: Origins of Recent Terrorism
*Iranian Revolution
Saudi sponsored schools
Soviet
invasion of
The fight against the Soviets: mujahadin, foreign fighters, aid from many countries
Soviet withdrawal and spread of
terrorism throughout the
Politics not religion
Why the