POLS 3490 Lecture Notes - Security Dilemma, Islam In Canada, Failed State

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 3490
• Professor: Ian Spears

Document Summary

Pols 3490 security dilemmas and violence september 24, 2013. A paradigm is a world- view; an understanding of how the world works: anarchy. A state of personal gain= situations of life or death: rationality, unitary actors, interests power survival. Related to the fact that there is no hegemon (all powerful protector) Realists do not usually explain conflict in terms of good or evil. They explain it in terms of security and insecurity. Evil is therefore not equal to wanting to survive. In the aftermath of september 11 2001 a muslim canadian was hauled off a place because other passengers thought he was acting suspiciously. The security dilemma is most intense in the following circumstances: it is difficult to distinguish between offensive and defensive forces. Ethnic groups that are more coherent are united might be perceived as (intense security dilemma) Groupness posing a greater threat than those who are dispersed or divided.