PS240 Reviews

"The assumptions that all persons share a common humanity is one of the normative glories of liberalism. It asserts the equal worth and common reason of all human. But the presumption of sameness obliterates difference when it eras the markers that distinguish cultures and peoples and crete identity and meaning."

• Russett, "Democratic Peace"

• Rudolph, "Imperialism of Categories"

• Mearsheimer, "Struggle for Power"

• Gaventa, "Three dimensions of power"

"Indigenous rights, as embodied in the Declaration, represent a moment of revolutionary transformation in global politics, but are often overlooked and under-appreciated, both by international relations theory and in practice. ... Indigenous rights and the Indigenous rights movement thus represent important shifts in both the structure and the practice of global politics."

• Carpenter, "Women and Children First"

• Immerwahr, "US as Empire"

• Lightfoot, "Indigenous Politics"

• Nelkin, "Politics of Personhood"

"In primitive anarchical societies, as in international society, the relations between these politically competent groups are themselves circumscribed by a structure of acknowledged normative principles, even at times of violent struggle."

• Bull, "How Order is Maintained"

• Mearsheimer, "Struggle for Power"

• Hurd, "How to do things with intl law"

• Shaffer, "why concepts need elucidating"

Which authors would agree with the statement: "Sovereignty in practice can look a lot different than sovereignty in theory."

• Russett, "Democratic Peace"

• Rajah, "Necropolitical Law"

• Lightfoot, "Indigenous Politics"

• Sands, "The Last Colony"

Which principle emphasizes the legal equality of states and non-interference in their domestic affairs?

• Self-determination

• Sovereignty

• Collective security

• Humanitarian intervention

"The TCC culture is lived and produced in the First World by a network of high-profile corporate executives, bankers, brokers, financial mangement experts, media managers, academics and bureaucrats using the most modern means of communications to create a world of ideas that has material force."

• Mearsheimer, "Struggle for Power"

• Chimini, "International Institutions Today"

• Hathaway, "International Law Goes to Ukraine"

• Rajah, "Necropolitical Law"

Which of the following constitutes the so-called "ban on wars"?

• Trail Smelter Case

• Lotus Case

• Geneva Convention

• UN Charter 2(4)

"But the hegemony of the international rule of law is not manifest in compliance. It is manifest in the universality of law as a source of justification and contestation. States cannot opt out in favor of some other logic of justification. There is simply no alternative to legalism."

• Hurd, "How to Do Things with International Law"

• Scott, "International Law and the Use of Force"

• Gaventa, "Three dimensions of Power"

• Carpenter, "Women and Children First"

Which authors* would advocate for the decentering of the nation-state in studying IR?

• Adamson, "Changing Geography of Global Security"

• Lightfoot, "Indigenous Politics"

• Chimni, "International Institutions Today"

• Russett, "Democratic Peace"

Which authors would argue that international laws have no real impact on world politics?

• Hurd, "How to do things with international law"

• Scott, "Intl Law and Use of Force"

• Sands, "The Last Colony"

• Mearsheimer, "Struggle for Power"