GINS 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Global Health, Mutual Assured Destruction

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Global and International Studies
• Course: GINS 1010
• Professor: seanburges

Document Summary

Security - safety of citizens ,protection way of life, and survival of nation-state. ( can i be scary enough so you can"t bother me ) Mutually assured destruction- if everyone has nukes no one can use nukes , Protecting basic needs- access food , water, oil. National security- depends on stable and productive domestic society. Actions and tools used to protect the state. Food access ( china"s worries ) , russia likes to divide everyone( to weaken and destabilize ) Seem non threatening or scary enough no one will bother you. Makes other states feel less secure ( us north korea, japan ) Spiraling escalation of threats, arms race ( cold war ) reagan spent the soviet union into the ground. Assumption that you"re going to go to war. China wants money and to be left alone, don"t want to control war. Can you outlaw war- can only take place in exceptional circumstances.