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100

“With the increasing value of the world of things
proceeds in direct proportion the devaluation of the
world of men."

Marx

100

what did Aristotle mean by "political animals" ?

it is in the nature of human beings to live in communities

100

who has the "noble savage" view?

Rousseau

100

what is climate change?

the warming of the earth due to human impacts

100

What is power in an IR context?

weapons/military economy

200

"Reason is the pace; increase of science, the way; and the benefit of
mankind, the end.”

Hobbes

200

What does Martin Luther King Jr. talk about in his letter to birmingham jail?

calls for unity 

calls out white moderates

civil disobedience


200

Who said people have inviolable natural rights to their lives, health, liberty, and property?

 Locke
200

what are non-state actors? diff types?

sub-state actors, international organisations, MNCs, NGOs

200

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

300

"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

300

In Hobbes's "state of war," people would be subject to?

a state of social paralysis

300

who thinks that capitalist soceity divides into two decisive classes?

Marx

300

What distinguishes global politics from international politics?

IR - sum states, Global Politics looks at wider dynamics - economic, social, environmental as well as political


300

What is the post cold war order?

US only super power left after collapse of Soviet Union - led era of liberal internationalism- allowed global non state actors to grow
400

"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

400

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

400

Who produced one of the most influential "modern" theories of the sovereign state?

Hobbes

400

In what ways do "gendered logic" influence our conceptions of war, national security and peace?

masculine lense 

women require the adjective

400
whats the diff between mitigation and adaptation?

mitigation - preemptive policies

adaptation - reactionary policies

500

"Take away natural rights, and duties become null"

Wollstonecraft

500

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

500

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

Emma Goldman
500

What're the major institutions of the EU? What do they do?

European Parliament, European Council - head of gov, council of Eu - foreign ministers

500
What is meant by the phrase "the personal is political"?

Gender encompasses everything from our most personal ideas about ourselves to ‘high politics’ (love, friendships, agency, professional life, consumption are all implicated in gender)