IR 210 1st Edition Lecture 9 Current Lecture The alleged clash between freedom and security turns out to be chimera For there is no freedom if it not secured y the state and conversely only a state which is controlled by free citizens can offer them any reasonable security Karl Popper Policing Internet Policing globalization globalization is only good if it serves our interests REVIEW QUESTIONS What is the difference between offensive and defensive realists Which view is dominant in the US Offensive realists What do we mean by the concept of a security state Permanent war economy Political Military World Controversies A Widening of Security Agenda Securitization a Considerations i Re election reputation image grabbing attention framing environmental issues as a security threat B New global security challenges that threaten sovereignty and stability a HIV AIDS great gap between old and young effects economy and stability of state government is challenged young are left without parents increase of refugees economic state collapse C Spread of conventional weapons and misuse by extralegal forces a Life of a gun b Political culture D Civil wars and identity wars new and old wars a New wars wars within states about identity ethnic warfare civilian death b Old wars wars about territory colonization E Capacity of state to act challenged by budgets and domestic politics F Controversies raised by R2P and other forms of humanitarian intervention a Libya and Syria b Rockwood Case G States pressured by NGOs and civil society H Fundamentalism and xenophobic nationalism a Language of people running for office I Controlling WMDS a Loose geeks b Iran getting help from Pakistan regarding nuclear weapons J Challenges to rules of war and just war practices and norms a Joe Nye s Dimensions of Military Power chart K The role of military force as a tool of statecraft a What role should military actually play How do you use the military Who should respond How Pandemics Climate change and weather Wierding Criminal networks Cyber warfare Poverty Resource scarcity With today s case in mind consider this statement made in 1996 in The Economist The knowledge era is spreading economic ideas and these ideas have three cultural effects not one They make cultures rub against each other causing international friction They also tie cultures together which offsets the first effect And they may well increase tensions within a cultural area as some groups accommodate themselves to the world while others turn their backs on it 4 Options o Market mechanisms o Structured options taxes on certain actions o Regulation I over We We don t see responsibility to a larger whole Everythng as a technological fix Technology limits our choices 1 Traditional Culture a Religion race language groups ethnic communities b Ascribed status identity at birth versus achieved status class i Who you are and who they are c Considered primordial in secular world 2 Political Culture a Yahoo capitalism free market trade individual freedom b Within states and globally c Rules of the game competing views at home and abroad 3 Popular Culture a Global consumer culture b Arts and entertainment c Yahoo and Facebook d Driver is globalization and the global market place e Westtoxication f Disneyfication But challenges to all cultures as we see in our case study what is power in the cultural world control over meaning Is this what this case is all about Case Study Political World vs Economic World