POL 2103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Security Studies, Neoliberalism, Security Dilemma

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 2103
• Professor: Kevin McMillan

Document Summary

Traditional security studies: threats: military in nature, main focus, military capabilities/strategies states develop to deal with military threats, main concern (gauge threats, ensure security): state power, power = ability to defeat the other in war. Traditional concept of security: tension: national vs. international security, competition for security (scarce, security: zero-sum nature, my efforts to increase my security not only other people feel less security, everyone"s security adds up to 0. Security dilemma: john herz, created the concept of the security dilemma (1950s, lord grey, outlines the security dilemma. Cooperation under the sd: robert jervis, 1978, what are different factors affecting how severe sd is, game theory prisoner"s dilemma . Prisoner"s dilemma: cooperation (staying silent) = c, defection (ratting out partner) = d, each outcome for each player ranked in order of preference, most preferred outcome = 4 least preferred = 1.