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POL209 Fall 2024 Final Study Guide 1POL109, Fall 2024 Final Exam Study GuideThe Exam Format: ●Your exam will consist of four answered questions. ○Each answer should be no longer than three hand-written, double-spaced pages.○You must ensure that you write clearly; if your answers are illegible, you cannot be given marks for the points you make. ○At the top of your exam booklet, you will have to specify three things: (1) which question you answered for your Video Essay; (2) your tutorial number; (3) and your TA’sname. ●The exam will come in two parts, and you will have some choice regarding which questions you want to answer. You will answer two questions for each section. Each section has one mandatory question, and another question where you will have some choice. Study guide questions: Answering the following questions will help you to prepare for the exam. In your answers, you should draw on lecture slides, lecture notes, and/or your course readings, and be able to reproduce that knowledge in written form on December 14th. I highly suggest that you turn these questions (and your answers) into flashcards to help you study for the exam. Forfurther information about the exam, and suggestions for how you might study, please see the Week #12 lecture slides on Quercus. Part I Week 2: Why do states fight? 1.Who was Thucydides, why is he important and what is his explanation for the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War in 431 BCE? Is it convincing? 2.What is Taras Kuzio’s argument for why Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022? How does he support this argument? 3.What is John Mearsheimer’s argument for why Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022? How does he support his argument? Week 3: Why does civil war happen? 4.What does Thucydides tell us about the civil war that occurred in Ancient Corcyra in 427 BCE and civil war in general?5.6.What does Christopher Philips tell us about the international nature of the Syrian Civil War? 7.Do “grievances” or “greed and ambition” (or both) best explain why the Syrian Civil War occurred? Week 4: How do states fight? 8.What is “civilian victimization” and what are some examples of this military strategy?
POL209 Fall 2024 Final Study Guide 29.What is Francesco de Vitoria’s just war theory? According to Vitoria, under what conditions is a state justified in killing civilians during war? 10.What is the historical context surrounding the US nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? How does Henry Stimson justify this bombing? Week 5: How do states repress? 11.Who was Aristotle, why is he important, and what does he tell us about tyranny and the characteristics of tyrannical, repressed societies? 12.Does Aristotle’s depiction of the “tyrannical society” describe Canada today? Why or why not?13.Based on what Aristotle, Ronald Deibert and Sean Yom tell us, what specific strategies can political leaders use to repress their people? Week 6: How do states exert control? 14.What is propaganda and what are some examples of it in international politics?15.Who was Plato, why is he important, and what does he tell us about censorship and propaganda?16.What was Plato’s “Noble Lie,” and what political purpose did it intend to serve? Part II Please note: you may not answer questions that are related to the topic you addressed in your video essay. Week 7: What is the global human rights system and where did it come from?17.What are human rights? 18.What does the Global Human Rights System consist of?19.What strategies does the Global Human Rights System use to pressure states to comply with international human rights laws?20.According to Aryeh Neier, what explains the emergence of the International Human Rights Movement? Is his view persuasive? Are there any important factors he does not mention? If so, what are they? Week 8: What is the ICC and why was it created?21.What is the ICC and what is its mandate? 22.What are the historical origins of the ICC? 23.Is the ICC an effective institution? Why or why not? 24.Is the ICC a racist institution? Why or why not? Week 9: What is humanitarian intervention and is it ever justified? 25.What is humanitarian intervention? 26.What is the moral and strategic logic of “doing nothing” in response to severe rights violations abroad?27.What questions need to be asked and answered to determine if a humanitarian intervention is justified? Week 10: How are data on human rights violations collected and under what conditions can they be trusted? 28.What are some reasons why human rights data is important?
POL209 Fall 2024 Final Study Guide 329.When assessing the reliability of quantitative human rights data, what specific questions do we need to ask and why?30.How does Human Rights Watch collect information on human rights violations? What are the sources of bias in its approach and how does it seek to address this bias as much as possible? Week 11: Was the advent of “the state” a positive or negative development for humanity? 31.What is “the state,” why is it important to analyze, and what characterizes its relationship with the people?32.What are some ways in which the state protects and promotes human rights?33.What are the main arguments against the state as a protector and promoter of human rights? 34.According to the Kurds, what does “stateless democracy” look like in practice? Is it practical and desirable? Why or why not?