Old stuff
How can you justly punish a sovereign according to Hobbes?
You can't
What do we have to focus on when studying civil war according to Collier?
Greed
Galtung differentiates between which three types of violence?
Structural, direct and cultural violence
What is the link between human security and human development, according to the UNDP 1994 Human Development Report?
Progress in one area enhances the chances of progress in the other; failure in one heightens the risk of failure in the other.
What are the three reasons that the dog didn't "bark" according to Chandler?
1: Exaggeration of the new post cold-war security threat
2: The location of new security threats in the developing world
3: The facilitation of short term policymaking in the absence of clear strategic foreign policy visions.
Otterbein’s position is somewhere between the Doves and the Hawks. What is his position?
Co-operation
What were the main factors causing New Wars according to Kaldor?
End of Cold War and Globalization
What type of theory is Lang building his argument on?
Social identity theory
Why have some states adopted human security as their foreign policy? (this is a general pattern from the texts)
Dynamics of the state’s domestic politics, and the desire by elite sectors of society to adopt the policy as a way to enhance the role of their country in the international scene.
What social science concept according to Baldwin is the most abused and misused?
National security
What archeological record does Otterbein see as a litmus test to indicating whether you are a “Hawk” or a “Dove”?
The Jerricho Fortress
Name three critiques Keen has of Collier!
1. He is missing proxies to measure greed.
2. He does not recognise other scholars/sources and their results
3. He has a lack of focus on the government
What does Arendt describe as „the latest and perhaps most formidable form of such dominion“ (dominion referring to power).
Bureaucracy
Why according to Wæver and Buzan was the deterrence theory a success? Name the two reasons.
It was productive/progressive and useful.
What according to Kurt Moesgaard needs to be improved in the UN when it comes to problems created by deployed soldiers ?
We need to be better at punishing bad guys in the UN, telling the witnesses/victims that justice has been served.
What was security for Cicero?
Inner feelings (Emotions)
Who introduced the term ‘New wars?’
Martin van Creveld in 1991
Instead of the perpetrator dehumanizing the victim, Lang argues that the perpetrator is doing what with the victim?
Instrumentalizing him/her
In regards to their functions, how have the think tanks altered between the 1950s to 1990s?
They stopped being innovative, shift to narrow technical problem solving
Why according to Wæver are the terms security and insecurity not binary oppositions, how does he define the two terms?
Security is a situation with a security problem and a response
Insecurity is a situation with a security problem and no response
In Otterbein’s conclusion, he says that “some conditions lead to war, some do not”. What are these conditions?
(1) The structure of the polity.
(2) The military organization.
(3) Coercive diplomacy.
What is a Dreg man according to Hoffmann?
He is part of a group of youth laborers at the margins of the economy and the society, in Sierra Leone
According to Arendt it is a sad reflection on the present state of political science, that our terminology does not distinguish among which five key words?
Power, violence, strength, force and authority
What is Rothschilds main concern (purpose of principle) in her essay "What is security"?
The naive idealist position, that principles (of security) including abstract principles, do matter to international policy.
Galtung and Øberg define: survival, development, freedom and identity as being fundamental to reach human security. Which three problems according to Wæver arise using these concepts?
1. Concept becomes all inclusive and emptied out of content.
2. Lack of attention to classical security makes it a contribution to the reproduction of securitization
3. Lack of political effect on security as traditionally defined.