POLSCI 4KK3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Civil Society, The Technique, Warini

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 4KK3
• Professor: J.Marshall Beier

Document Summary

Precision weapons as those being the only ones as being ethical: the label of precision is used to sanitize warfare actions. Technology - technie as something that allows you to change the environment. The military itself has gone through contortions to figure out how to manage the public perspective on warfare. Attempts to continually manage perception to sustain public support. Advancing politics in support of foreign policy. Finding new ways of rationalizing our status" quo". Small arms control and the reproduction of imperial relations . The north is doing what the south is doing by militarizing the police. The police have the ability to be more forceful. Arms control through the global north is done out of the worry that something is happening in the south will impose a threat. Order to maintain the stability of the global north. India and border areas with some legitimate concerns;