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International Politics
Global Welfare

The Human Condition

depends on where you live.

According to our class, GOV 207:

Global North
Condition: Good
Future:  Improving

Global South
Condition:  Poor
Future: Deteriorating

Global Issues

Population Pressure

Global Pandemics

Food Fights

Poverty in the World

Millennial Goals

Ecopolitics of Energy

Ecopolitics of the Atmosphere

Ecopolitics of Forests, and Biodiversity

 

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Kegley, Charles W. Jr. and Eugene R. Wittkopf, World Politics:  Trends and
     Transformations, 9th Ed.   Belmont, CA:  Wadsworth/Thomson Learning,
      2004.

Brief Outline of Part III

The Politics of Global Welfare

Chapter Seven:  The Human Condition

Poverty in the World

Global Refugee Crisis 

Indigenous People:  Life in the Fourth World

Gender:  The Subordinate Status of Women

Human Rights:  Ethics and Law

Humanitarian Intervention

Chapter Eight:  Globalization

Global Information Age

            Cyberspace

            Virtuality

            Digital Divide

            Information and Communications Technology (ICT)

            Media:  Markets or Monopoly

            New World Information and Communications Order (NWICO)

Global Health or Global Infection

Global Migration

Globalization of Finance

            Globalization of Finance

            Arbitrage

            Digital world economy

            Capital mobility hypothesis

            Finance Capital

Globalization of Trade

            GATT

            Trade integration

            Newly Industrialized Economies

            Strategic Corporate alliances

            Foreign Direct Investment

            Underemployment

Globalization of the State

Chapter 9.  Markets and Money in the New Global Economy

International Monetary System

            Economic Liberalism

            International Monetary System

            Bretton Woods Agreements July 1944

            Liberal International Economic Order

            Interdependence

            Comparative Advantage

            Laissez-faire economics

            Neomercantilism

            Protectionism

            Hegemony:  A Precondition for Economic Order and Free Trade?

       

            GATT

            World Trade Organization

            Monetary Matters

            World Bank

            Group of 7 (8)

            Regional Currency Union

            Unilateral Policies

            Fast Track Negotiating Authority

Chapter 10.  Population Pressure, Resource Depletion,
and the Preservation of the Global Environment

Population Pressure

            Global North and Global South

            Population Momentum.  From 6 billion to 10 billion

            Population Explosion, Implosion, Demographic Transition

Global Pandemics

            HIV/AIDS

            Tuberculosis

            Malaria

            New Diseases 

Food Fights

            Neo-Malthusians or Pessimists

            Cornucopians or Optimists

            Genetic Engineering

            Transgenetic Crops

            Food Security 

Environmental Security and Sustainable Development

Ecopolitics or Ecological Politics is "the intersection of ecology and politics. (368)

Politics of Scarcity “predicts that future international conflict will likely be caused by resource scarcities—restricted access to food, oil, and water.” (370)

Environmental Security “recognizes that threats by such phenomena as global warming, ozone depletion, and the loss of tropical forests and marine habitats can threaten the future of humankind just as much as can the threat of nuclear annihilation.” (370)

Epistemic Community refers to “a group of experts from around the world who seek to redefine security to move beyond realism’s popular state-centric conception of international politics” to include environmental issues into the definition of security. (370, 371)

Sustainable Development “is now popularly perceived as an alternative to the quest for unrestrained growth.” (370)

Relative Gains

Absolute Gains 

Ecopolitics of Energy

            Oil

            OPEC

            Cartel

            Search for Renewable Energy Supply

            Fear of Nuclear Energy

            Wind, Water, Solar, Biomass

            Geothermal

Ecopolitics of the Atmosphere

            Climate Change

            Rising Temperatures

            Carbon Dioxide

            Fluorocarbons

            Greenhouse Effect

            Melting Icecaps

            Acid Rain from sulfur and nitrogen oxides

            Ozone Layer

            Regimes

Ecopolitics of Forests and Biodiversity

            Deforestation

            Desertification

            Biodiversity

                        Global Commons

                        Collective Goods

                        Enclosure Movement