IAFF 1005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Global Health, Military Necessity, Noble Eightfold Path
13 Jun 2018
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Thursday Lecture: Introduction
What are our international concerns?
● Cultures and societies
● Global development
● Global environment
● Global health
● Human rights
● International economics
● International politics
● Security and conflict
● Regional analysis
Current policy challenges
● Transnational = non-state actors, relatively benign
● Challenges aren’t isolated to the box they’re in
UN missions
● Maintain international peace and security
● Protect human rights
● Deliver humanitarian aid
● Promote sustainable development
● Uphold international law
● These are ways to cluster international issues
What are we trying to explain?
● War and peace
● Poverty and prosperity
● Oppression and justice
● Instability and stability
● Conflict and cooperation
● Disorder and order
Independent variables → intervening variables → dependent variables
● Trying to develop explanations by identifying other variables that help decide if you are
having good outcomes or bad
● “Explanatory chain”
● Be as specific as possible → variables vary
● Variables interconnect with one another
“Politics is like physics, only harder” - Einstein
Ethics: social/community principles and rules; established understanding of right and wrong
Morality: personal principles
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Document Summary
Challenges aren"t isolated to the box they"re in. These are ways to cluster international issues. Independent variables intervening variables dependent variables. Trying to develop explanations by identifying other variables that help decide if you are having good outcomes or bad. Be as specific as possible variables vary. Politics is like physics, only harder - einstein. Ethics: social/community principles and rules; established understanding of right and wrong. War can be justified if the reasons for going to war are legitimate and if military force is used properly -walzer. If your cause is just and you conduct yourself in the right way, you can justify war. Pacifists disagree, but few world leaders are pacifics. Jus ad bellum (justice of war) under just war doctrine, when using force is justified: Right intention (protecting others; ie. other countries trying to protect people the. Rwandan gov"t were killing during the ethnic cleansing) Sovereign states are entitled to make war vs. peace decisions.
