INTST101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Well-Founded Relation, Food Security, Habitual Residence
12 Aug 2016
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Security entails national and individual defense from physical and physiological harm: War, terrorism, blackmail, assault, property theft, damage etc. Developed nations focus more on national security via military efforts > public"s personal security and privacy is compromised due to state censorship and surveillance. Underdeveloped/developing nations focus on individual defense due to structural and direct violence (poverty, unemployment, rioting, etc) today security is concerned with state and that sate"s public; in the past security was defined by kingdoms, knighthoods, language, religion, etc. Realism (power politics): states will always act on what is in their national interest and its unrealistic to expect to do otherwise. Liberalism/liberal institutionalism: states will cooperate when given the opportunity to do so hence importance of international organizations/law. Thesis: the end point of mankind"s ideological evolution and the universalization of western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.
