POLSCI 4GG3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Silent War, Neocolonialism, Status Quo

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 4GG3
• Professor: J.Marshall Beier

Document Summary

Gives liberalist states justification or right to civilize hierarchies of power: new threats are in the developing world, focus on short-term policy making, even if human security is brought into these structures, they do not challenge existing. Power shapes knowledge, knowledge is not something that is objective, but it is built. Human security it gets overwhelming and problematic; Born out of a need to be policy relevant; dismiss it unless it can be used to be policy relevant. Want to establish concrete definition and safeguards. The incitement to discourse is fused with power relations: encouragement; pressured, cosmological realism; because everything is supposed to go into this; acts as a gatekeeper preventing what can and cannot be talked about. The underlying structure is so deeply held that it does not even get questioned; beyond inquiry. Pre-theoretical; not something positive; something that is deeply held. Function of political power was a silent war to reinforce the relationship of force.