GOV 312L 1st Edition Lecture 10 Outline of Current Lecture I. TMFPQII. Transition segment-War and International PoliticsIII. Predation and enforcementIV. What is war and what are its propertiesV. Just war theoryVI. Discussion: Crawford readingCurrent Lecture-News-Ebola• Do not block off countries, you need to support them. Blocking off, creates fear.• In Liberia, 10,000 people have flown out, only 2 have been subjected to screening.• The screening is not very effective before getting on the plane.• The best way is to do the exit screening.• But even before, you will not be on the plane, if you have fever, so the 10,000 number is 10,000 is already safe people.• Terrorism in sending bio-terrorists with ebola virus. Ebola is not very efficient.-How globalization is creating a new set of threats?These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.• With communicable diseases-Do we and can we shut down borders?• What regulatory infrastructure do we have so far?-Most of them are by the state.• The disease is overwhelming the capacity of the Liberia state to respond.• In the US too, there is a huge logistical challenge in tracking down victims.• People lying at the airport is a large problem. Can the government rely on self-promises?-Fear is one of the biggest problems with crises like this.-Promising remedy is vaccines.-McDonald-War and politics• Define politics: it is a innately social process. It is a means of coordinating social behavior.• Definition: It is the authoritative allocation of scarce resources.• Authority is the capacity to direct social behavior (and a cost or penalty if you fail tofollow).• It is different from peer coercion, because the person agrees with overall even if he does not agree with the specifics. (example: income tax). Moreover, some people consider paying is legitimate because it is used for military. Even if people consider the tax is too high, they agree because it is legitimate. • It helps resolve conflicts in society.• Scarce resources: Politics is about using authority to allocate scarce resources.• For example, Obama campaigned in 2008 on raising taxes for wealthy to give to poor.-Those who coerce are not always seen as legitimate or rightful in their coercing actions. Example: school boy bully.• So it is important that the authorities can coerce.-In late night 6th Street, the police presence is important. If the police are absent, the self-people have to take care. The police are considered the legitimate power to use physical force to keep the situation under control.• If the police aren’t there, some would stop going to 6th St hurting economics, some would arm themselves and society is broken.-The absence of authority (and sometimes esp. physical force) is necessary to keep control.-But sometimes, when you endow the police with the power, the (corrupt) police can use it for their own purposes.• So how do you endow the power, but also curtail it? Successful countries have done this through democracy.-Hitler’s wars of 1939 and ISIS are examples of expanding without countervailing force. Their growth and expansion become self-sustaining. ISIS is gaining resources like land, oil, dams and more recruits.-If you do not counter these things, the predator becomes stronger and can expand to cover more groups.• So ISIS has to be pushed back because they are doing horrible things to the peoplein their wake.-First, in 1920, America just withdraws to avoid this.-Hitler then fills this vacuum in 1930.-How do you make American threat legitimate?• The Soviets• The Allies thought US connections better than Soviet threat.-When the Soviet collapses, how can US legitimate itself and the use of its force.-One person: US legitimized itself by making it• democracy: by getting support from Congress and people, not arbitrarily.• participation in multinational NATO: consultancy before use of force.-But the war against Iraq in 2003, many US allies opposed but the US did anyway.-Eickenbury wrote that US non-limits may mean it is embarking on its own Asian escapades. (more)-Obama says the US is the indispensable nation. If the ISIS is defeated in two years, does America go on to other countries. When will we stop?Recap: how stable political orders are rested in the legitimate use of violence.-Politics as the use of authority to allocate scarce resources-Authority nested in capacity coercive use of violence, coercion can be used to enforce and to