Collective Security & Personal Responsibility I. Redefining national security & power A. Declining utility of force B. Economic C. Environment D. Soft power II. Challenges to the nation-state A. Poor fit between nations & states Maps make possible such questionable concepts as Iraq, Yugoslavia, Nigeria. The state, remember, is a purely Western nation which until the 20th C. only applied to countries covering 3% of the earth's land surface. B. Non-state actors NGOs, MNCs, IOs C. Permeable borders, globalization --mobile populations, refugees (3rd largest city in Sierra Leone is a refugee camp), immigration (L.A. has more Mexicans than any other city besides Mexico City) --goods (trade, drugs) --culture --environment III. Alternative futures A. Bleak: "west against the rest" Combination of poverty, overpopulation, env'tl degradation & ethnic conflict is already leading to collapse of social order in parts of Africa. Is this the prelude to the 21st C.? Imagine a sleek stretch limo w/the global elite, while hordes of poor people bang on the windows. Will the global elite be able to protect themselves? The D better dikes; Bangledesh cannot. Or perhaps Camp of the Saints is the more likely scenario. B. Collective security (nascent) 1. U.N. 2. Democratization 3. Human rights norms 4. Demilitarization 5. Sustainability IV. Personal Responsibility A. You are a sovereignty-free actor! B. Resources for global involvement C. Bringing it home: consumption (Americans: 140 lbs./day) E = PCT 1. Moss: "The act of buying is a political act." ($=power) "Everything I use has been made by other people." 2. "From cradle to grave" Think about where it came from, its waste products, & where it will go. 3. Toilet assumption 4. Global ecological interdependence & SHADOW ECOLOGIES Belgium & Bangledesh have same pop. density; Belgium's ecosystems wd. collapse if they had to support the consumption habits of the Belgian pop.
