POl 141 final exam Flashcards
What Ukraine needs from NATO
- Hill highlights that the west was the reason of the collapse of the USSR however, as hill notes, this is false Russian propaganda.
- Putin feels as though Russia has lost its power as a superior state. NATO threatens Russia by expanding to Eastern Europe.
- Ressertion of Russia power, Russia gaining to be the dominante force taking back land that was once theres as putin belives
What Ukraine needs from NATO
Summary: This article covers the relationship between NATO and Ukraine and their growing demand to join NATO In the future, The July summit will conclude these decisions at the 75 annual one. Ukraine is therefore looking for better security from NATO as well as providing more artillery (Military assistance from Nato)
- NATO did promise that Ukraine had an invitation to join in the future but would not just be given an invitation during the Washington summit
- For as long as Russia keeps fighting NATO will not accept Ukraine as a new member
- NATO must take over from the USA in leading the Ukraine defense contact group
World Order
- This means an organized state of existence -> maintaining peace and order, helping support the goals of society.
International Society
- Interest
- Values
Multipolar world order
- Creation of alliances with other territories
- British, French empire etc.
- Balance of power
Bipolar world order
Two sovereign states, deologically/politically and economically distinct (democracy/liberalism vs. communism/command economy)
* Each with distinct alliances, institutions and organizations (Western Bloc vs. Eastern Bloc)
* Stability maintained
* Balance of power – each jockeying for
influence in international system
* Proxy wars
* Development aid
* Mutual deterrence – threat of nuclear war
resulted in relative peace
* Platforms for communication, dispute resolution – UN Security Council, Moscow- Washington Hotline
The Less-Distant Past - Bipolar World Order
(mid 1900s – 1990)
(Knippenberg, 2006, p. 51)
* Collapsed with the end of the Cold War (1989
What are the three traditions
Realism
Rationalism
Revolutionism
Realism
Dog eat dog world, states own self interest
Revolutionalist
o Reject most war on moral grounds no needs to derive from state interests
o Weaponize islam as a totalitarian regime
o Hard revolutionalists such as Marxists see war and armed struggles as the agent of history and to overcome the Capatalist status quo
Rationalism aka Liberal internationalism
o Peace is the norm war is the violation
o Policy of war, all wars should be fought for the purpose of regaining or reestablishing peace. If war is necessary it must be waged evil
o War is means of last resort
Liberalism
Social Contract Theory – John Locke and Thomas Hobbes (17th century)
■ legitimacy of a state depends on a social contract with the people
– Liberal Peace Thesis – Immanuel Kant (1795)
■ democratic governance = limits on state power = lower likelihood of war
■ Economic interdependence, trade = higher costs to war for all = lower likelihood of war
Multipolarity
Balance of power between different Great Power States
■ e.g. USA, Russia, China, India – Multi-order?
■ Shift in how power is wielded and held
■ Instead of states -> assemblages of states, private companies, non- state actors
– united by shared identity and values, forms and systems of governance
■ Co-existence of different orders or ways of organizing the int’n system
■ e.g. Capitalist-inspired Communist Order; Transnational Islamist, post-Westphalian Order; Far-right, Nationalist, Protectionist Or
Natural Law
principles of moral and fundamental justice s applie dto law among other nations
Customary law
Reciprocal practices over a long period of time
positivist law
Law based on a written agreement among states
