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Notes available for the following courses of Philosophy, Politics and Economics at The University of Warwick (UOW)
- PH133 Introduction to Philosophy 5
- PH336 PPE Politics and Economics 4
- PH338 PPE Philosophy and Politics 4
- PO107 Introduction to Politics 3
- PO131 World Politics PO301 18
- PO230 States and Markets 2
- PO231 International Security 3
- PO301 Issues in Political Theory 6
- PO382 Vigilant State - The Politics of Intelligence 8
- Political theory from Hobbes 1
Latest notes & summaries The University of Warwick (UOW) • Philosophy, Politics and Economics
Revision notes on Civil Liberties in Vigilant State. Topics covered:
- Privacy
- Theorising state surveillance
- Surveillance vs state secrecy
- Surveillance in practice
- Detention and repression
- Civil liberties
Revision notes on Counter-Terrorism in Vigilant State. Topics covered:
- Lee Rigby Report
- Third/fourth waves of terrorism
- Complex environments
- UK responses
- Operational problems of suppression
- Operational problems of concession
Full lecture notes for PO382 Vigilant State - The Politics of Intelligence. Topics covered:
- Intelligence collection
- Intelligence analysis
- Politicisation
- Producer-consumer linkage
- Intelligence liaison
- 9/11
- Iraq and WMD
- Intelligence failure
- Counterterrorism
- Future of intelligence
- Tyranny and authoritarianism
- Accountability and oversight
- Civil rights
- Espionage
- Torture and assassination
- Deception
- Covert action
- Spying for peace
- Globalisation
This essay examines the usefulness of the ‘ticking bomb scenario’ (henceforth TBS) in determining whether torture should be used for intelligence purposes. It draws on epistemological and strategic analyses, as well as recent intelligence history, to argue that using the TBS to debate torture is not only futile, but actively counterproductive, and of little relevance to the moral, consequential or legal debates on torture. Part One situates torture within the liberal discourse and introduces...
Revision notes on Covert Action for Vigilant State. Topics covered:
- Why study covert action?
- Definitions
- Risks, drawbacks and dilemmas
- Morality
- Measurement
- Culture and Propaganda
- CIA and covert action
- A range of literature summaries (including Saunders, Koch, Lucas, Wilford, Laville, Aldrich, Paget)
Revision notes on Accountability and Oversight for Vigilant State. Topics covered:
- Accountability
- Intelligence and Security Committee
- Globalisation
- Oversight
- International Oversight
Revision notes on Non-Human Animals in Political Theory. Topics covered:
- Moral Status and Justice Status
- Zoocentrism
- Welfarism
- Subject-centrism
- Meat eating and farming
- Singer: Preference Utilitarianism
- Regan: Subjects-of-a-life
Full lecture notes for the module Issue in Political Theory. Topics covered:
- Rawls and Nozick
- Cohen and Dworkin
- Equality and sufficiency
- Desert and liberty
- Democracy and legitimacy
- Meritocracy
- Education
- Environmental justice
- Gender justice
- Immigration
- Assimilation and cultural diversity
- Political obligation
- Non-human animals and animal rights
This essay argues that a liberal democratic state in a bordered world does not have the right to prevent would-be immigrants from entering it. Part One rejects three arguments put forward in justification of a right to exclude when accounting for the moral arbitrariness of being born within a state, and the historical injustices implicit therein. First, Blake and Miller’s theory of exclusion on the basis of national obligations; second, Wellman’s self-determination argument; and third, Pevni...
Revision notes on Environmental Justice in Political Theory. Topics covered:
- Distributive justice
- Anthropocentrism
- Zoocentrism
- Biocentrism
- Atomistic eco-centrism
- Climate change
- Intergenerational justice
- Carbon emissions and burden-sharing
- Polluter Pays Principle
- Beneficiary Pays Principle
- Ability to Pay Principle
- Futurity puzzle
- Non-identity problem