Class notes
POLI 352 Midterm Exam notes
- Course
- Institution
Here are the notes needed for the POLI 352 Midterm Exam. Content is from lectures and readings.
[Show more]
Seller
Follow
christinakoikaran
Content preview
- Explaining third world alliances balance of power theory- Balance of power theory
o Explaining third world
- David offers corrective: looking at how states behave acorss global south, a lot of time shift
focus and analysis
- Classic assumptions of BOP limited in explanatory
- Bop theory, predicts threats will be resisted
- State as unit of analysis
- States according to BOP, predict that states counter other states power by balancing
- Which entails creating alliances with other states and arming themselves to balance against
threat from other states
- WWI AND WWII example, how did france behave?
- Offset threat through alliance building and program of arming themselves
- Alignment is determined by te structure of the intl system
- Gives rise to alignemtn pattern^
- Actual and potential external threats that a states face, how strong alliance will be...
- David says that BOP has shortcomings to explain how global south behave, using egypt and
ethiopia
- Ex: african state engaged in seucrity ecosystem
- Ethiopia, david’s observation
- He comes up with omnibalance
- What happens in global south, they face external and internal threats
- For authoritarian regimes in global south, domestic political environment is as least as unstable
and dagernous as intl one
- David shifts unit of analysis, unlike IR theory, unit of analysis then becomes the state leader
- Wants to safeguard personal power and survivial
- Coups could cost them their life
- Element of leaders survivial and their regime against potential attackers
- When coup detat occur, where do they almost always originate from? The army, military,
seucirty forcees, people with guns
- Military as the center of gravity of countrys power
- IR: vis a vis neighbours
- Omniblanacing teaches us that military forces become primary source of threat and instability
Comparison
- BOP: leaders of state align with secondary adversaires to focus on resources on prime
adversaries
- Making defence paths
- Britain and france allies in WWII, shared system of democratic war, but eventually alliance with
soviet, up until then it was a rival, but at the time, secondary rival, adversary, interest in
confronting primary adversary germany, clasiic balance of power behavioir
- Omnibalancing: some of same principles but rebalance for global south
- Same holds true but secondary threats other states, primary often domestic
- Goal of third world leaders to stay in power, protect themselves over state interests
, - Why weaken security forces? Makes sense if you consider it a primary threat, focus on that first,
might even aligh external powers for stability of regimes
- Dictators often afriad of own armed forces than external
- Sometimes will weaken their own militaries power to make sure no one overthrows them
- Authoritorian leaders ^
- External enemies not what they most fear, fear more the threat
Theoretical implications
- In accordance with realism
- Omnibalancing argues that intl politics on power, interests and rationality
- BUT unlike realism, states are not unitary actors
- Leaders of state rather than state itsel, is level of analysis
- Realism argues that state can be untiary actor, founding scholar of neo realism kenneth, state
can be compared to a black box, or a billiard ball
- Balls banging against each other
- Neo relist, like states act, unitary actors, black box more valuable, implies that all states are the
same, don’t need to look a=internally, what matters is the result. All states behave the same no
matter which country you’re dealing with, not useful to open black bozxto see mechanisms
within
- States functioning as same way
- Omnibalance says no, have to look in the state
- To proceed with outcomes u need to look at processes differently
Case study not david example
- Uganda in east africa
- Fast forward to idi amin, dictator of uganda 1971-79
- Behavious as dictator
- For a while, extent he was known, upheld as quintissential african dictator
- Killed so many people
- Didn't make sense to ugandan politics
- Idi amin seized power in military coup in 1971
- Countries would support coup d’etat to get more power
- Idi served in britishi imperial military
- His coup sponsored by british and israelis
- He embodied the interests of Britian, groomed him
- Israel saw this as a strategic move to gian power
- Amin deposed Milton Obote, who replaced him after Amin was overthrown In 1979
- Obote was in exile until his overthrowing
The benefits of buying summaries with Stuvia:
Guaranteed quality through customer reviews
Stuvia customers have reviewed more than 700,000 summaries. This how you know that you are buying the best documents.
Quick and easy check-out
You can quickly pay through credit card or Stuvia-credit for the summaries. There is no membership needed.
Focus on what matters
Your fellow students write the study notes themselves, which is why the documents are always reliable and up-to-date. This ensures you quickly get to the core!
Frequently asked questions
What do I get when I buy this document?
You get a PDF, available immediately after your purchase. The purchased document is accessible anytime, anywhere and indefinitely through your profile.
Satisfaction guarantee: how does it work?
Our satisfaction guarantee ensures that you always find a study document that suits you well. You fill out a form, and our customer service team takes care of the rest.
Who am I buying these notes from?
Stuvia is a marketplace, so you are not buying this document from us, but from seller christinakoikaran. Stuvia facilitates payment to the seller.
Will I be stuck with a subscription?
No, you only buy these notes for $7.99. You're not tied to anything after your purchase.
Can Stuvia be trusted?
4.6 stars on Google & Trustpilot (+1000 reviews)
53340 documents were sold in the last 30 days
Founded in 2010, the go-to place to buy study notes for 14 years now