The University of Warwick (UOW) • Philosophy, Politics and Economics

1. HEALTHCARE FOR ALL: A CLOSER LOOK AT THE WELLBEING OF SYRIAN REFUGEES SEEKING ASYLUM IN JORDAN 2. Equality for all: A closer look at the lives of female foreign domestic workers in Qatari Households 3. TO WHAT EXTENT DOES THE CONCEPT OF ‘MEN AND MASCULINITY’ IMPEDE WOMEN’S PARTICIPATION ON CORPORATE BOARDS IN JORDAN?

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Revision notes for Intergenerational Justice in Principles of Political Economy - Philosophy & Politics. Topics covered: - Bases of justice - Reciprocity and subject-centrism - Adapting reciprocity - Adapting subject-centrism - Non-identity problem (Parfit) - Person-affecting principles (conceptions of harm) - Discounting the future - Responses to non-identity problem - No-difference view and disjunctive conception of harm - Essay summaries and critiques (non-identity, non-reciprocity) - Paper s...

Revision notes on Climate Change Burden Sharing in Principles of Political Economy - Philosophy & Politics. Topics covered: - Responses to climate change - Responsibilities - Ability to Pay Principle (APP) - Beneficiary Pays Principle (BPP) - Contribution to Problem Principle (CPP) - Distribution of emissions rights - Holism and atomism - Hybrid accounts - Summaries and critiques of readings (including Caney, Page, Weijers, Gardiner) - Two essay plans and critiques

Revision notes on Universal Values and Human Rights in Principles of Political Economy - Philosophy & Politics. Topics covered: - Are human beings born free and equal? - Global minimum rights (Miller) - Obligations - Higher threshold (Caney, Nussbaum) - Critiques of universalism - Human rights as a political institution

Revision notes for National and Global Obligations in Principles of Political Economy - Philosophy & Politics. Topics covered: - Moral duties to foreigners and compatriots - Anti-cosmopolitanism - Statism - Statist disanalogy - Nationalism and critiques - Distributive justice - Summaries and critiques of several readings (including Blake, Miller, Caney, Abizadeh, Axelsen)

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 Producer-Consumer Linkage and Politicisation in Vigilant State. Topics covered: - Democracy and autocracy - Deception - Knowledge and intelligence - Reflexive analysis - Human Agency - Idealism vs realism - Summaries of various readings (including Betts, Gardiner, Jervis, Pillar, Marrin, Hastedt, Rovner, Dahl, Woodard, Davis)

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