POLS 2940 Study Guide - Final Guide: Limited War, Counter-Terrorism, Securitization

• School: York University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2940
• Professor: Prof. Monika Thakur

Document Summary

Key debates: debate: how to understand war international & civil war; limited & total; west & south; Clausewitz (barkawi; mcneilly: debate: how to understand war, state, society in the west and global south (barkawi; Terms: war, international (inter-state) war and civil (intra-state) war, limited war and total war. Key debate: debate: how to understand security; compare traditional and alternative approaches to security (baylis; vox; burke; jal; maslin; lucas) Key debates: debate: relationship between globalization and terrorism (kiras; public safety; us dept of. State; ghansah: debate: combatting terrorism various strategies, including address threat beyond national borders (kiras) Key debates: debate: how to understand nuclear proliferation, motivations; proliferation optimists/pessimists - waltz/sagan; stability-instability (greitens, debate: non-proliferation efforts; nuclear programs in north korea, iran deal (greitens; hunt; Terms (section a): nuclear non-proliferation treaty (npt, nuclear deterrence, horizontal proliferation and vertical proliferation. Key debates: debate: case for and against humanitarian intervention (bellamy/wheeler, debate: responsibility to protect (r2p) - helpful, challenges (bellamy/wheeler)