Lesson 1 introduction to global security Flashcards
_________ is a core value of human life.
Security
___________ reminds us, without security ‘there is no place for industry… no arts, no letters, no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short’.
Thomas Hobbes
_________ is most commonly associated with the alleviation of threats to cherished values; especially those which, if left unchecked, threaten the survival of a particular referent object in
the near future.
SECURITY
Two Prevalent Philosophies
of Security
Security as being virtually
synonymous with the
accumulation of power.
Security flows from power
Five Factors Affecting Security
Military
Political
Economic
Societal
Environmental
Three Realms for the
term ‘’Security”
First, the broad, day-today use of the word, referring to a position aspired to: of
being safe, secure, protected;
Second, the political use of the word, referring to political actions, processes, or
structures that can secure the safety of a political unit; and
Finally, “security” can be used as an analytical concept to identify, describe,
understand, explain, or even predict phenomena in the general social realm;
phenomena such as “security policy,” “security policy interaction,” or “security
institutions and structures.
the central focus of security has been _(1)________ (Rothschild 1995). As noted above, however, within academic IR, security was fused with (2)__________
- PEOPLE
- STATE
Security even more specifically, it was fused with a particular conception of ‘the national interest’ as set out in the _________________
US National Security Act of 1947.
Six clusters of threats exercising the world’s governments
Economic threats
Social threats
inter-state conflict
internal conflict
terrorism
transnational organized crime
Security is the absence of a_(1)_______ to the stability of the_(2)______________, to countries, or to
individual.
- THREAT
- INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM,
____________is the capability of a country to protect its
core values, both in terms that a state need not
sacrifice core values in avoiding war and can
maintain them by winning war.
Security
__________ is generally a normative term. It is applied by nations “in order to be either expedient—a rational
means toward an accepted end—or moral, the best or
least evil course of action”.
Security
___________ desire for more power is
rooted in the flawed nature of humanity, states are continuously engaged in a struggle to increase their .
classical realism
____________realism suggests that states seek
security in an anarchic international system –the main threat to their well-being comes from other states
defensive structural
Defensive structural realists argue that prevailing technologies or geographical circumstances often favor defense, seized resources do not cumulate easily with those already possessed by the metropole,
dominoes do not fall, and power is difficult to project at a distance. TRUE or FALSE
TRUE
is Classical realism the absence of the international equivalent of a state’s government is a permissive condition that gives human appetites free reign? TRUE OR FALSE
TRUE
Offensive structural realists agree with the defensive structural realist prescription that states look for only an ‘appropriate’ amount of power. TRUE OR FALSE
ANS. DISAGREE
FALSE
_______________sees the rules and practices of the international system
as being determined by the wishes of the leading (i.e. most powerful) state.
Rise and fall realism
WHAT ARE THE THEORETICAL APPROACHES OF SECURITY STUDIES
╸ Classical Realism
╸ Neoclassical Realism
╸ Rise and Fall Realism
╸ Offensive structural realism
╸ Defensive structural realism
╸ Liberalism
“A rising tide lifts all boats” ; an international atmosphere of all-encompassing progress is in the interests of all states, rather than alienating one state from others through increased power. The following statement is from which theoretical approach?
LIBERALISM
What is the theoretical approach of security studies where in there is emphasis on free international trade differing states begin to trade, ties between states become closer, decreasing the likelihood of war and economic aggression.
LIBERALISM
____________concerned with the interplay between the
armed offensive and defensive capabilities of states and states’ perceptions of each other’s intentions;
military
____________ focused on the organizational stability of
states, systems of government and the ideologies that
give them their legitimacy;
Political
____________concerned with the maintenance of
the local and the planetary biosphere as the essential support system
on which all other human enterprises depend.
Environmental
_____________ centered on the sustainability and evolution of traditional patterns of language, culture, and religious and national identity and custom;
Societal
______________revolved around access to the resources, finance and markets necessary to sustain acceptable levels of welfare and state
power.
Economic
Security is unavoidably political; that is,
it plays a vital role in deciding who gets
what, when and how in world politics
TRUE OR FALSE
TRUE
Political concerned with the interplay between the
armed offensive and defensive capabilities of states and states’ perceptions of each other’s intentions
TRUE OR FALSE
ANS Military
FALSE
Societal focused on the organizational stability of
states, systems of government and the ideologies that
give them their legitimacy;
TRUE OR FALSE
ANS.POLITICAL
FALSE
Economic - revolved around access to the resources, finance and markets necessary to sustain acceptable levels of welfare and state
power;
TRUE
