IR 323 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Millennium Development Goals, Securitization, Anthropocentrism

• School: USC
• Department: International Relations
• Course: IR 323
• Professor: Gibson Shannon

Document Summary

We talk too much so we didn"t get to do the ocean prezi at all. The us is an exception again by not being signed on to it. We in practice do a lot of the same stuff, but it would prevent us from mining the seafloor and other economic interests so congress said no. The realist lens makes sense here, we"re inherently greedy and anarchic. Things have shifted in the security discourse to deepen the understanding of security. Being used strategically to establish climate change as national security, put it up on the priority list. Climate change is the most severe problem we are facing today, more serious even than the threat of terrorism - david king, uk government chief scientist. Climate change increasingly poses one of the biggest long-term threats to investments - christiana figueres of the unfccc. Bitch who reconceptualized consensus to screw bolivia. Holy shit general petraeus was at her other class on tuesday.