International security

password rules. They identify two modes of thinking in regards to passwords they deem as outdated. One is the model where a user is creating passwords independently and uniformly from a set of passwords. The other where hackers are attempting security breaches via offline attacks. They argue these outdated models have caused an overemphasis on particular user behaviors that really are not that dangerous. This is a very well written common sense report. It acknowledges that no matter how…

Globalized World: The study of International Relations revolves around the “decisions that are made within a country that have implications for relationships outside the borders of that country” (Kaufman, Page 2). In the current globalized world, countries are interdependent entities that must exist and interact with one another. The manner in which countries choose to engage with another, such as aggressively or civilly, can be predicted and analyzed through various international political…

Generalizations derived from traditional international politics do not apply today in the following ways: war between great powers is unthinkable, so new world orders will emerge; because of the high interdependence of states, Gross Domestic Product is no longer a valid measurement of power; and the presence of data and cyber-security issues causes problems regarding globalization and who controls cyberspace, which can decrease American hegemony. According to Robert Jervis in his essay, “The…

inferences about the individual drawn from otherwise innocent data (Solove 2011, 27). Examples of this can be seen in Edward Snowden’s revelation of the three-tiered hierarchy of the NSA foreign partnerships and the scope of information these international governments shared. The tier one nations are known as the Five Eyes, where there is an agreement made between the United…

peaceful and cooperative. Yet, there are places where wars are still happening. In a democratic way, it is believed that people of a nation are the ones who have the authority to control the government. Politicians believe that international actors, more specifically the international institutions such as the United Nations, hold the central authority. The arguments keep going; as such all actors wish to be involved in making the decisions of a governmental system. However when aiming for a…

International relations, like most things in the political arena, is influenced by ideology which is at the root of the competing impulses driving U.S. foreign policy, internationalism and unilateralism (Kaufman, 2014). The decisions political leaders make are often influenced by their preconceptions about how the world works. These preconceptions are often created from theories. In his “One World, Rival Theories”, Jack Snyder makes the case that out of the three dominant theories guiding…

decisions whether to enter warfare, as its legitimacy derives from the rights of the individual, and not necessarily from the rights of states. On the whole, the Just War theory is similar to ‘a grammar for moral reflection and deliberation’ in the international relations traditions (Gregory 2014, p. 57). As remarked by Lee (2007, p. 3), the Just War theory outlines the rules and norms to control military violence and to limit aggression by establishing the norms of “moral permissibility”. The…

Security measures designed to protect passenger safety are often criticized for being invasive and violating privacy. Passengers complain about the fact that transportation security goes to far when it comes to searching them, but what they fail to realize is that it is for their own safety in the airport and on an airplane. Airport passengers are quick to say that their privacy is violated with the pat downs, body scans and secondary screenings, but when an incident occurs within an airport or…

Trade Policy: Power and International Institutions In recent years the study of international relations has experienced a shift in the way that interaction at the systemic level is analyzed. This can be partially attributed to the rise in globalization, which has since led to the creation of numerous types of non-state actors and fundamental changes in the way scholars conceptualize the state. This can be tied to the liberalization of trade policies that have encouraged the development of…

2012). Internationalization of curriculum is defined as “a curriculum with an international orientation in content and/or form, aimed at preparing students for performing (professionally/ socially) in an international and multicultural context and designed for the domestic and/or foreign students ( Deardorff, et al. 2012). The internationalization of the curriculum is a result to the globalization…