POL 507 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Stuxnet, Cybercrime, Hacktivism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POL 507
• Professor: Robert Marshall

Document Summary

Explore how technology has affected the nature of warfare and the role of the modern nation state in this process. Historically nation states have claimed a legitimate monopoly on the use of violence. This is an idea associated with max weber from his study written in 1919 politics as a. Karl emil maximilian max weber was a german sociologist, philosopher, jurist, and political economist whose ideas profoundly influenced social theory and social research. Weber was referencing the concept of jus ad bellum i. e. the legal recourse to war. Jus in bello speaks to the conduct of war and the understanding of protecting non-combatants from the effects of war. Only a nation state could legitimately use physical force which is one of its sources of authority. Power is connected to ideational factors such as legitimacy and the presumed authority of those who seek to wield it. He once famously stated that war is the continuation of politics by other means .