POSC200 exam 1

The 30 years war ended with

the treaty of westphalia

The treaty of westphalia signaled

the begginning of the modern state system that states shape international law and centering soverighn equality

Peace of Westphalia

• ended 30 years war: the Habsburg states were defeated by protestants- division about religion and dynasty

• Religion was Catholicism

• central principle: terrirories ruler would determine its religion

The rise and fall of great powers lecture, which empire was not talked about. Zulu, Roman, Mongol, aztec/maya/inca

Non of the above

Zulu empire “scatterlings of africa

• defeated british empire

• stabbing dagger

• failes bc of hubris

• thought they shoulve conqured africa

• Tribes they were fighting joined british troops to fight the zulu

Roman empire

• first to develop iron shield

• owned world for 800 years

mongol empire

congueres china, thialand

compond bow and arrow and sturups horseback

created mobile weapon system

killed at distance

Why are WMD different than conventional weapons

• indiscriminate

• Potential for enormous damage, relative to cost and siz

• provide different forms of leverage in world politics

  • ex. cluster munitions, combat aitcraft, guns, grenades

Security dilemma

A sisuation where states increase their military spending to ensure their own security are percived as threats to the security of another state

FDR

A disabled president who keep his disability a secret from the public

Longest sitting president

What percentage of the worlds population is disabled

15%

Three factors contributing to Jordan becoming the first Arab state to have disability right laws

• education

• hashmite royal family

• tradition of openness and generosity

2006 Convention for the rights and dignity of disabled people (CRPD)

disabled people needed an international treaty to protect their rights

power projection

ability to use military force far from country

ex. send missile from LA to hit somone in sweden

weapon proliferation

spread of weapons from state to nonstate actors

vertical: more bio, chem, and nuc weapons

horizontal: more states getting weapons

chemical weapons convention

agreement that bans production and possession of chemical weapons and threatens sanctions against violators and nonparticipants

Weapons of mass destruction

nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, all distiguished from conventional weapons by their potential lethality and lack of discrimination

Non-proliferation Treaty

treaty that created a framework for controlling the spread of nuclear materials and expertise

collective security

formation of a broad alliance of most major actors ininternaitonal system for purpose of opposing agression by any actor

international regime

set of rules,norms, and procedures where expectations of actors coverage in a certain issue

prisoner’s dilemma

situation modeled by game theory where rational actors pursue individual interests all achive worse woutcomes than they could have by working together

5 structures of the UN

• Security council

• Secratarist

• General Assembly

• Economic and social issues

  • world back, WHO

• World court

universal declaration of human rights

Core document for human rights

it is not binding just gives guidelines

War crimes

violations of the law governing the conduct of warfare, such as the mistreatment of prisoners of war or the unnecessary targeting of civilians

crimes against humanity

category of legal offenses created at the Numemberg trials to encompass genocide and other acts committed by third reich (nazis)