quotes
“With the increasing value of the world of things
proceeds in direct proportion the devaluation of the
world of men."
Marx
what did Aristotle mean by "political animals" ?
it is in the nature of human beings to live in communities
who has the "noble savage" view?
Rousseau
what is climate change?
the warming of the earth due to human impacts
What is power in an IR context?
weapons/military economy
"Reason is the pace; increase of science, the way; and the benefit of
mankind, the end.”
Hobbes
What does Martin Luther King Jr. talk about in his letter to birmingham jail?
calls for unity
calls out white moderates
civil disobedience
Who said people have inviolable natural rights to their lives, health, liberty, and property?
what are non-state actors? diff types?
sub-state actors, international organisations, MNCs, NGOs
What does the EU control? What does it not?
controls: customs, trade, competition and commercial policies, international agreements
does not: public health, tourism, education, culture
"A human being is by nature a political animal, and…anyone who is without
a city-state, not by luck but by nature, is either a poor specimen or else
superhuman"
Aristotle
In Hobbes's "state of war," people would be subject to?
a state of social paralysis
who thinks that capitalist soceity divides into two decisive classes?
Marx
What distinguishes global politics from international politics?
IR - sum states, Global Politics looks at wider dynamics - economic, social, environmental as well as political
What is the post cold war order?
"A revolution may well bring about a falling off of
personal despotism and of avaricious or tyrannical
oppression, but never a reform in one’s true way of
thinking"
Kant
What does Locke argue is the difference between the state of nature versus the state of war?
state of nature: right without force - exists in the absence of a common judge
state of war: force without right - exists when one tries to put another under one's absolute or arbitrary power
Who produced one of the most influential "modern" theories of the sovereign state?
Hobbes
In what ways do "gendered logic" influence our conceptions of war, national security and peace?
masculine lense
women require the adjective
mitigation - preemptive policies
adaptation - reactionary policies
"Take away natural rights, and duties become null"
Wollstonecraft
In "The Rights of Women”, Wollstonecraft argues what about a women's role in society?
That taking away a woman's natural rights, and their duties become null
Who thinks that religion is the dominion of the human mind, that property is the dominion of human needs, and that government is the stronghold of man's enslavement
What're the major institutions of the EU? What do they do?
European Parliament, European Council - head of gov, council of Eu - foreign ministers
Gender encompasses everything from our most personal ideas about ourselves to ‘high politics’ (love, friendships, agency, professional life, consumption are all implicated in gender)