POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Arab Spring, Marshall Plan
Not cumulative
Twenty multiple choice - each 2 marks
Two essay questions - 30 points each
Main focus : lectures / PowerPoints
Readings - give evidence that you did the readings
Some MC will come from readings
What were aims of the war? What made it unusual compared with other conflicts
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How has WW1/2 shaped our views of war?
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How were WW1 and 2 politically motivated? Are wars today different?
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War
Who did they affect?
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What were they?
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Germany worst
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Israel / Palestine - most moderate, least expelled
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Which of the expulsions was the most brutal, which the least?
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What did the major actors in each case want?
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Why is Israel / Palestine considered more benign than rest?
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Forced population movements
What is eugenics
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What were its aims?
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On what did it depend as a theory
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Who supported eugenics
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Why was it popular in some states and not others
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Which organization consistently opposed it?
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Eugenics
Why, according to the readings, did they emerge?
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Rights
What is Arab Spring?
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Are international factors more of a threat to democracy than external?
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Why did Weimar Germany fail?
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What causes democracies to transition to dictatorships? What causes dictatorships to
transition into democracies
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Democratic Success and Failure
What is the state?
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What are the three types of political authority?
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What separates the modern state from earlier models of political authority
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The State
What is it
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What are major schools of thought?
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UN, Treaties, international organizations, world bank, IMF, states
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Who are the key actors in international relations?
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How did and does the international system treat minorities within the state (Lecture
6)
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How did German problem undermine peace post-Napoleon?
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What characterizes International system? Why is it difficult to characterize?
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International System
Think of it as a way of governing international politics
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What sort of politics was interpreted through the lens of the cold war
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What were the major theories
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Cold War
Lecture 2.12: Doing Political Science + Review
April 3, 2017
12:00 PM
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Document Summary
Readings - give evidence that you did the readings. What made it unusual compared with other conflicts. Israel / palestine - most moderate, least expelled. On what did it depend as a theory. Why was it popular in some states and not others. What separates the modern state from earlier models of political authority. Un, treaties, international organizations, world bank, imf, states. How did and does the international system treat minorities within the state (lecture. Think of it as a way of governing international politics. What sort of politics was interpreted through the lens of the cold war. Area of political science and public policy of enormous consequences for global justice, for global politics, and for people"s lives. What is the distinction between sociological and official multiculturalism. Modernization : need for certain level of wealth. What forms of violence preceded the emergency of democracy. What is the distinction between electoral and substantive democracy.
