POLS 3320 Lecture 8: lecture 8
9 Mar 2017
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Themes re to hum last week: growing secularization, sovereignty, multilateralism, great power politics. Use of violence & warfare this week: there"s something about violent suffering that evokes some type of hum response, underlying assumption is that war happens, part of life. When is war justifiable: protecting your sovereignty, land when being encroached upon, iraq us interventions 1) 1990 iraq invades kuwait and us intervenes. Just cause: ex. to protect lives, defend hr, comparative justice. Injustice suffered by 1 part: competent authority, right intention, last resort. In the 19th century tech development rapidly grew during war. Regulating war, jus in bello (way in which welfare is conducted) (humanitarians are. Save the children international in 120+ countries in world: large company officies who give charitable donations (works as network) Oxfam: established as the oxford famine relief committee in 1942 to releieve the famine in greece, which was occupied by natzi germany and therefore subjected to allied blockage.
