WHAT IS THIS COURSE UNIT ABOUT AGAIN? When will states cooperate to overcome “collective dilemmas”? When won’t they? What are the main ways to achieve cooperation: Dominance, reciprocity, and identity Key variables: How many states needed, certainty of benefit/harm etc.?, whether more communication is happening How is globalization impacting cooperation? (2)How are states working together to protect international security? Where are the current trends with respect to different types of conflict? What are the main institutions to collectively protect intl security?: The UN and its security council What are the main ways to pursue intl. security collectively? Collective security, peacekeeping, and humanitarian intervention.

WHAT IS THIS COURSE UNIT ABOUT AGAIN? (3) How are states working together to protect economic security? What is the relationship between economics and international security? What are the main intl. issues that countries seek to address internationally? (a) Under-development, (b) creating a stable intl. financial system, (c) preventing one country’s econ problems from becoming regional and intl. crises, (d) facilitating trade in ways that enhance comparative advantage and innovation What are the main global institutions to collectively protect econ. security?: The World Bank, the IMF, and GATT/WTO

SHOULD, CAN, AND WILL COUNTRIES WORK TOGETHER TO ALLEVIATE WORLD POVERTY? Why should we care about the developing world?: What are the ethical issues involved? Who secures the UN charter’s provisions regarding human rights? What role does the developing world play in creating poverty? What role does the developed world play? What are political issues involved in dealing with poverty? What are the security issues involved?

IS GLOBAL POVERTY AN INTL PROBLEM? HOW DO WE MEASURE DEVELOPMENT IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES? What is “development”? Is it a linear concept? Is there a western bias to thinking about development and what counts Various important measures Measuring national wealth: GDP, GNP What’s the better measure? GDP vs. per capita GDP Market exchange rates vs. PPP Units of analysis: Do we care about poor countries or poor people? (or both)

WHERE DOES DEVELOPMENT STAND? Evidence from the Economist (2007): Who are the Global Titans?

WHAT ABOUT THE “BOTTOM FIFTH? WHY HAS GLOBALIZATION LEFT IT BEHIND? David Collier’s analysis (See Niall Ferguson’s review) One is seven children in these 58 countries dies in their first year of life; life expectancy is <50. Why? Developing country growth—70s: 2.5%; 80s and 90s: 4%; 00s: 4.5% The bottom billion—70s: .5%; 1980s: -.4%, 1990s: -.5% The civil war “trap”: 73% of the people in the bottom billion have recently gone through a civil war. Why was it that Hobbes thought that a brutal leviathan was better than a stateless society? Being trapped by geography: Land locked, lots of neighbors, and lootable wealth (the curse of resources) Being trapped by demography: Too many young men and ethnic conflict Bad governance choices and vicious circles: Bad government = no investment = rent seeking = bad governance. Notice that regime type is less important at this level of development than the orientation of the govt. towards promoting development and minimal equity. Setzler would add market size to this list.