Readings DEFINITIONS
ANSELL – THOUGH SHALT PROTECT
Implicit social contract = an agreement between the public and authorities where individuals have
consented to russender and submit to the authority in exchange for protection of their remaining rights or
maintenance of social order
ANSELL- THE RISE OF THE STATE
LACKOFF AND COLLIER 2015
- BIOPOLITICS --> where classical sovereignty sought to ensure the security of the state itself in the face
of foreign and domestic threat, modern biopolitics aims to ensure the health and wellbeing of national
population
- CATASTROPHE --> sudden and unpredictable events that disrupt system critical to economic and social
life
o REFLEXIVE BIOPOLITICS= poverty, unemployment, crime and endemic diseases had regular
patterns of occurrence
- CLASSICAL SOVEREIGNITY --> ensure security of state form foreign domestic threat
- MODERN BIOPOLITICS --> ensure health + wellbeing of national population
o Foucault
o Late 18th century poverty, unemployment + diseases have regular patterns of occurrent
- VITAL SYSTEM SECURITY collective life dependent on interlinked systems
o Interlinked systems = transportation, electricity, water
- RISK SOCIETY, Beck (pg. 22)
o Beck interested in limits of existing forms of risk management in terms of dealing w catastrophic
threats
o FIRST MODERNITY = risks distributed over population
o SECOND /REFLEXIVE MODERNITY = risks unseen before, unbounded by temporal or geographic
scope
- Forms of security differ in objective
o POPULATION SECURITY = regularly occurring events among population in predictable ways
( central role of risk)
o VITAL SYSTEMS SECURITY (early 20th century) = events whose probability cannot be calculated.
Intervention seeks to increase preparedness for future emergencies
Intensification of modernization + industrialization processes, planners and policy
makers recognized that collective life had become depedendet upon interlinked systems
such as transportation, electricity, water
Large amount of systemic data to organize conscription for war, reduce toll of
epidemics
CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERALISM = emphasis on limited executive authority and
adherence to legal formalism, inherently incapable of responding to rap
idly changing situations that required urgent executive action
STATE OF EXCEPTION = appear as the dominant paradigm of government in
contemporary politics
, READING N3 DEFINING GLOBAL PUBLIC GOODS KAUL, GRUNBERG & STERN
WALTZ WHO’S AFRAID OF A BALANCE OF POWER
Balance of power = states may secure their survival by preventing any one state from gaining enough
military power to dominate all others
- No world government = each state has to protect themselves from each other and rely on own
resources. They may mobilize more resources when facing a powerful threating state
Balance of power theory = state’s internal composition determines friends and enemies. 3 points need to
be discussed. First, shared values provide powerful unifying force, it advertise cohesion and durability of
existing alliances (ex. NATO). Second, forgetting about the balance of politics will bring surprises from other
states (ex. Bush administration surprised by F-G-R joined forces against security council council agreement
on Iraq 2003). Third, focus on political ideological affinities + ignoring role of shared threats make us see
adversaries more unified than in reality (ex. axis of evil between Iran, Iraq and North Korea)
NYE READING – WHAT IS POWER IN GLOBAL AFFAIRS
Concept of power = power is a contested concept as such people choice of definition depends on interests
and values. Iti means the ability to make a change and get what u want, power over nature and
peoplewhere “A” make or resist change “B” the ability to get what we want and “C” power and influence
interchangeably
Perceived power=( population + territory + economy + military) x (strategy + will) but also country’s
resources (technology, enterprise, human capital, physical) + national performance (external constraints,
ideas) + how they determined military capabilities
- Dictionary definition = capacity to do things in social system to affect others in getting outcomes, as
such influence can interchange power, in reality though they are different.
- Specifity u need to specify the kind of power relationship and the topic involved
- Behavioral definition judge power = define power by the resourfes that produce outcomes as not all
those w power get the outcomes they want
o Ex post after actions
o Ex ante not before
- Power resources= they are shortcut that can help in figuring out who the big countries are. They differ
between tangible / intangible and they are considered as a vehicle
Relational power= it is the ability to get others to do something they don’t want to, the ability to affect
other’s preferences. It is. CO-OPTIVE POWER ppl do what u tell them to do because they acutally want to
do them (commanding power)
3 FACES OF POWER
1.Commanding phase = it is the direct and “public” use of force, B knows and feel the effect of A
2.Controlling agendas = it is the hidden phase or co-optive, B may or may not be aware of A
influence
3.Establishing preferences = it is the invisible phase, B is unlikely to notice the power of A
Structural power = combination of both controlling agendas + establishing preferences Integrative power=
under a global politics pov it is when nations work together towards common goals
Global power = reached by working between states
3 TYPES OF POWER
ANSELL – THOUGH SHALT PROTECT
Implicit social contract = an agreement between the public and authorities where individuals have
consented to russender and submit to the authority in exchange for protection of their remaining rights or
maintenance of social order
ANSELL- THE RISE OF THE STATE
LACKOFF AND COLLIER 2015
- BIOPOLITICS --> where classical sovereignty sought to ensure the security of the state itself in the face
of foreign and domestic threat, modern biopolitics aims to ensure the health and wellbeing of national
population
- CATASTROPHE --> sudden and unpredictable events that disrupt system critical to economic and social
life
o REFLEXIVE BIOPOLITICS= poverty, unemployment, crime and endemic diseases had regular
patterns of occurrence
- CLASSICAL SOVEREIGNITY --> ensure security of state form foreign domestic threat
- MODERN BIOPOLITICS --> ensure health + wellbeing of national population
o Foucault
o Late 18th century poverty, unemployment + diseases have regular patterns of occurrent
- VITAL SYSTEM SECURITY collective life dependent on interlinked systems
o Interlinked systems = transportation, electricity, water
- RISK SOCIETY, Beck (pg. 22)
o Beck interested in limits of existing forms of risk management in terms of dealing w catastrophic
threats
o FIRST MODERNITY = risks distributed over population
o SECOND /REFLEXIVE MODERNITY = risks unseen before, unbounded by temporal or geographic
scope
- Forms of security differ in objective
o POPULATION SECURITY = regularly occurring events among population in predictable ways
( central role of risk)
o VITAL SYSTEMS SECURITY (early 20th century) = events whose probability cannot be calculated.
Intervention seeks to increase preparedness for future emergencies
Intensification of modernization + industrialization processes, planners and policy
makers recognized that collective life had become depedendet upon interlinked systems
such as transportation, electricity, water
Large amount of systemic data to organize conscription for war, reduce toll of
epidemics
CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERALISM = emphasis on limited executive authority and
adherence to legal formalism, inherently incapable of responding to rap
idly changing situations that required urgent executive action
STATE OF EXCEPTION = appear as the dominant paradigm of government in
contemporary politics
, READING N3 DEFINING GLOBAL PUBLIC GOODS KAUL, GRUNBERG & STERN
WALTZ WHO’S AFRAID OF A BALANCE OF POWER
Balance of power = states may secure their survival by preventing any one state from gaining enough
military power to dominate all others
- No world government = each state has to protect themselves from each other and rely on own
resources. They may mobilize more resources when facing a powerful threating state
Balance of power theory = state’s internal composition determines friends and enemies. 3 points need to
be discussed. First, shared values provide powerful unifying force, it advertise cohesion and durability of
existing alliances (ex. NATO). Second, forgetting about the balance of politics will bring surprises from other
states (ex. Bush administration surprised by F-G-R joined forces against security council council agreement
on Iraq 2003). Third, focus on political ideological affinities + ignoring role of shared threats make us see
adversaries more unified than in reality (ex. axis of evil between Iran, Iraq and North Korea)
NYE READING – WHAT IS POWER IN GLOBAL AFFAIRS
Concept of power = power is a contested concept as such people choice of definition depends on interests
and values. Iti means the ability to make a change and get what u want, power over nature and
peoplewhere “A” make or resist change “B” the ability to get what we want and “C” power and influence
interchangeably
Perceived power=( population + territory + economy + military) x (strategy + will) but also country’s
resources (technology, enterprise, human capital, physical) + national performance (external constraints,
ideas) + how they determined military capabilities
- Dictionary definition = capacity to do things in social system to affect others in getting outcomes, as
such influence can interchange power, in reality though they are different.
- Specifity u need to specify the kind of power relationship and the topic involved
- Behavioral definition judge power = define power by the resourfes that produce outcomes as not all
those w power get the outcomes they want
o Ex post after actions
o Ex ante not before
- Power resources= they are shortcut that can help in figuring out who the big countries are. They differ
between tangible / intangible and they are considered as a vehicle
Relational power= it is the ability to get others to do something they don’t want to, the ability to affect
other’s preferences. It is. CO-OPTIVE POWER ppl do what u tell them to do because they acutally want to
do them (commanding power)
3 FACES OF POWER
1.Commanding phase = it is the direct and “public” use of force, B knows and feel the effect of A
2.Controlling agendas = it is the hidden phase or co-optive, B may or may not be aware of A
influence
3.Establishing preferences = it is the invisible phase, B is unlikely to notice the power of A
Structural power = combination of both controlling agendas + establishing preferences Integrative power=
under a global politics pov it is when nations work together towards common goals
Global power = reached by working between states
3 TYPES OF POWER
