VI authors & ideas

Ansell (2019)

the protective state: state preventively protects citizens from an increasingly broad range of harms

Lakoff & Collier (2015)

vital systems security: collective life dependent on critical systems which must be protected anticipatorily

Kaul, Grunberg & Stern (1999)

global public goods: are nonrivalrous, nonexcludable, universal (across countries, socioeconomic groups, generations)

Nye (2011)

the 3 faces of power: coercion, controlling agendas, establishing preferences (+ smart power)

Walt (2017)

balance of power theory → shared values are insufficient for alliances; assuming they're dominant is a MISTAKE; alliances are mainly based on strategic benefit

Lakoff & Klinenberg (2010)

UASI controversy was framed as pork-barrel politics VS objective/rational approach to security risk

reality: issues were that UASI was new & inexperienced, unclear definitions, risks of terrorism were impossible to accurately calculate mathematically, anger about distribution, lack of transparency

Zahariadis (2016)

4 Ps of agenda setting: power, perception, potency, proximity

attention is scarce → priorities must be set → agenda setting is a political process, and understanding this process must lead to more transparency and democratc involvement in agenda setting

Murphy (2018)

global governance is most useful when it refers to a type of governance for collective problems that cannot be solved at a lower level → UN (promoting international peace) + history lesson on origins of the term global governance

Kahler (2018)

3 alternative futures for international order: fragmentation (regionalism), stagnation (gridlock), transformation (complex governance)