POL 13000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Wield, Arab Spring, Human Security

• School: Purdue University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 13000
• Professor: Mckenzie Johnson

Document Summary

Power and states after the cold war: post cold war era: globalization and transnationalism, redistribution of power, away from states, to markets, and civil society. International standards of conduct: transnational problems, global citizenry. What is the state good for: security, military and foreign relations, states ensure survival and security, states use coercion, brute force, and diplomacy, human security. Individuals security may not derive from national security: food, shelter, employment, health, public safety, nontraditional treats: terrorism, environment, poverty, state-led violence. Ie: arab spring: human security, technology, democracy, religion, social movement. Individuals using social networks to organize across boarders: per(cid:272)eptio(cid:374)s of (cid:862)(cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)it(cid:455)(cid:863) nationalism, transnational interests and identities: groups have more in common across boarders than within borders, sovereignty, anarchic conditions produce new security challenges: us soldiers in niger. Who provides human security: nonstate provision of goods and services, nogs and philanthropy, health care, education, and even basic security comes from one of these groups not the state.