Transnational issues

Question

What are 2 threats realists see emerging that could destabilize the balance of power concerning population increases that are not distributed?

Answer 1

1) states with burgeoning population and insufficient food might seek to expand territory or aquire food by war.

2) surplus males who might otherwise turn to crime etc might be channeled into state militaries and expended in agressive wars.

Answer 2

they see it as confirming that the south needs economic development.

Answer 3

Health and humanitarian problem, economic issue (affects people in productive years), social issue (famillies suffer), human rights and ethical issue + security issue

Answer 4

first generation: Rights possessed by an individual that the state cannot usurp

second generation:developed under the principles of Marx

Third generation:specify rights for groups, such as ethnic or indigenous minorities

Answer 5

When the population increases much greater than the food production (when uncontrolled, population increases geometric and food arithmetric)

Answer 6

Realists emphasize the state security

Radicalists see unproportional costs by poorer groups

Liberals see environmental issue as appropriate in international agenda

Contructivists are interested how political and scientific elite define the problem and how that definition changes over time

Answer 7

No, developed countries have lower birth rates than developing countries and in addition, China causes problems with mainly males.

Answer 8

The no-significant-harm prinicple (state cannot initiate policies that cause significant environmental damage to another state) and the good neighbour principle of cooperation.

Answer 9

1) its is not uniformly distributed

2) both rapid rates of overall population growth and high levels of economic development mean increased demands for natural recourses

3) high population growth rates lead to numerous ethical dilemmas for state and international policy makers

Answer 10

Liberalists: focus on international responsibility for dealing with health issues and be willing to use all groups; local, substate, state, international, NGO

Realists: stress individual state responsibility + acknowledge impotance of health problems when security is affected.

Radicals: health is another issue that shows economic differential between wealthy and poor. Would be quick to join condemnation of multinational companies that are more concerned with profit than humane objectives.