Unit 5: HL extension · Global political challenges
Topic 5.7: Security Questions
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Explain what is meant by 'securitization' and why it matters in global politics.
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Explain the security dilemma and how it can lead to an arms race.
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Explain the difference between traditional (state) security and human security.
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Explain the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and the development–security nexus.
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Analyse why effective responses to modern security threats usually need more than military force.
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Discuss the view that traditional (state) security still matters more than human security.
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Discuss the view that states are made safer by military strength than by cooperation.
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Discuss the view that the Responsibility to Protect does more to protect the powerful than the vulnerable.
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Discuss the view that climate change and pandemics should be treated as security threats.
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Discuss the view that security should mean protecting individuals rather than states.
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To what extent have non-traditional threats replaced traditional military threats as the main danger to security? (synthesise across the challenge)
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To what extent can cooperation overcome the security dilemma? (synthesise across the challenge)
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Recommend how policymakers should define 'security' when a crisis threatens people but not the state.
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Recommend how the international community should protect civilians when a state fails to protect its own people.
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Recommend how the international community should respond to a major non-traditional security threat.
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To what extent can the international community deliver human security to the world's most vulnerable people? (synthesise across the challenge)
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To what extent has the meaning of 'security' shifted from the state to the individual? (synthesise across the challenge)
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Recommend how two rival states caught in a security dilemma could reduce the risk of conflict.
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Using a case of your choice, recommend how states and other actors together could respond to a major security threat.
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To what extent should security mean protecting people rather than the state? (synthesise the whole security challenge)
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