POLS 3320 Lecture 5: lecture 5

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 3320
• Professor: Craig Johnson

Document Summary

Identifies these forces to explain/understand humanitarianism: central pillar behind emergence of humanitarian phemenom are. Pols*3320: all helpful both in explaining how humanitarianism worked and how it has improved/expanded w tech. Three stages of humanitarianism: periodizaiton: by lumping events, processes, periods of dramatic change, into these periods (middle ages, rennasance, controversial bc it can be seen as artificial way of interpreting the past. Saying we can identify these 3 distinct stages of humanitarianism and looking are the 3 forces that is driving humanitarianism across the periods. Civilisation (enlightenment and faith) religious & soc reasons in west you see strong push on colonial powers to do something for ppl affected by colonialism. Lib democracy being promoted as central valuable for int hum. actors. Has become one of human rights and sustainability. Imperialism: colonialism: the pol control of ppl and territories by foreign states.