Barkawi - Study guides, Revision notes & Summaries

wish to proceed in this paper by answering in turn the key questions posed to the authors at the beginning of this workshop. 1. Do teachers have a moral obligation to include ethics in their courses? The answer is, yes. Furthermore, a failure to do so is an ethical failure. The reason for this is that all interpretations of what is going on in the world that international relations (IR) theorists study are already loaded with ethical commitments of one kind or another. A failure to m...

The complex interdisciplinary area of international relations examines interactions between governments, non-state entities, and other international organisations in a variety of political, economic, and social dimensions. One of the most important and influential events that influence international relations in this setting is war. Throughout history, wars have led to the rise and fall of empires, the creation of new states, and the redrawing of international boundaries, and they continue to pl...

Summary of the lecture by Dr Noam Leshem on different critical perspectives on war. This lecture outlines the geopolitical sites of war, their contestations and several authors from different perspectives who comment on this, including Nixon, Pain and Barkawi. A good introduction to critical theory of geopolitics in human geography.