Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Securitization, Constitutionalism
15 Oct 2018
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Security and the state: duality: external anarchy, internal order, security: safety from harm or threats, based on the state(cid:495)s capacity to, (a) maintain order within borders, (b) protect against external threats. Security and the state: 16th century onward: long decline in domestic crime and violence, 18th-19th centuries: police replace military as providers of domestic order. The role of the police: perspectives, (a) liberal: sustains rule of law impartially consensually, (b) conservative: props up state authority in face of constant threat of disorder, (c) radical: serves elites, represses people, requires constant check and challenge. In a police state: (a) the police state do not rule, but are a central instrument of rule, (b) constitutionalism and the rule of law are set aside, (cid:523)c(cid:524) cases: nazi germany, the soviet union, pinochet(cid:495)s chile. External/internal distinction revisited: ever more difficult to sustain with, (a) globalization, (b) 9/11, (c) enables (cid:498)securitization(cid:499)
