INTS Contemporary Challenges Reading Review
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- Energy
- Yergin: Diversification, resilience, and SPREAD INFORMATION, need to protect entire supply chain Obama's Plan: invest 150 billion over 10 years to accelerate commercialization of renewable energy⬦ Also, DIVERSIFICATION
- Military Power: what use is it?
- Mary Kaldor: new wars • Bloodier, aimed civilians, nonstate actors, multilateral way to solve better, result of failing states (increasing!!!) Powell Doctrine: be selective about war, go in, get out Bacevich: force is NOT necess the answer for things; irrationality of preventive war, don’t confuse ideology with operations Tom Barnett: Leviathan and System Administration force
- WMD Proliferation: how dangerous is it?
- Circincione: Five main reasons why countries have nukes- security, prestige, politics Obama's Plan: --> Prague Speech. Russia and USA need to decrease warheads down to 1000 --> new strategic arms reduction treaty --> can't allow new countries to obtain them
- Islam and “the Westâ€: the major flashpoints
- (Huntington) • massive population explosion, fueling populist movement and fundamentalist radicalism Obama’s Cairo Speech •Democracy-but always, gov’t must reflect will of ppl •Religious Freedom-Sunni Shi’ite choice and violence •US open to dialogue with Iran
- Economic Institutions: from Bretton Woods to the G-20
- Keynesianism “need for gov’t intervention†stimulus: need for serious regulation Wendell Wilkie’s One World- Bretton Woods: IMF and WB to regulate.
- Population Growth/Demographic Shifts
- Thomas Malthus – “That population cannot increase without the means of subsistence, is a proposition so evident, that it needs no illustration. That population does invariably increase, where there are the means of subsistence, the history of every people that have ever existed will abundantly prove. And, that the superior power of population cannot be checked, without producing misery or vice, the ample portion of these too bitter ingredients in the cup of human life, and the continuance of the physical causes that seem to have produced them bear too convincing a testimony.†- Basically reiterates and predicts the main problems of today back in the 1700s - Poor will suffer the most! With influx of more laborers, the laborer will have to work more to earn the same as he did before