Violent non-state actor

Avatar The Last AirBender, Aloha, and Ghost in the Shell. Still don’t know? Each one of these movies and many others like them, have minority characters played by white actors. The term for this is called, whitewashing. Whitewashing is defined as, the casting practice most commonly in film, in which white actors are cast as non-white character roles. In this paper we will be looking at both film and theater and the ideas of whitewashing, tokenism and color blind casting. Since we already have…

Politics by Michael W. Doyle. One World, Rival Theories states the basics of all three major theories and gives a general idea of liberalism’s main points. Liberalism and World Politics on the other hand gives a detailed explanation of liberalism alone and continues to break down the theory into three separate categories. This helps to fill in some of the gaps in the first article as well. In the first article, One World, Rival Theories, Snyder states that the three theories, realism,…

Power and interests have always been the basis of the relationship among societies. International orders emerge to establish how states relate to each other and change due to major clashes between great powers. Along the history, the quest for the survival and development of civilizations around the world evolved around the amount of power they have and the interests they share. With the evolution of societies, distribution of power was necessarily a zero sum situation. To explain this, the…

terrorism and terrorist do not identify casually coherent and distinct social phenomena but strategies that recur across a wide variety of actors and political situations. (Tilly 2004) A key aspect of terrorism is that it is asymmetrical warfare that is unique and falls outside of the context of traditional warfare. Terrorism is the irregular use of violence by non-state groups against nonmilitary targets and personnel for political ends. (Lake 2002) The…

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Tillerson outlines the intention of the United States to further relations with India to address the rising Chinese power. He describes the nature of US ties with India as a “strategic relationship.” Moreover, Tillerson highlights how the United States and China will “never have the same relationship” due to China’s communist society and infringements of several international conventions. In his speech, Tillerson makes it evident that the United States views…

States involvement is not fully known. Some claim the operation began at the behest and aid of the CIA, but there is no clear evidence to back up such a claim. Most of what is known today is that the US was looking for ways to combat communism in South America. When the US came upon Operation Condor and found favor in it, they offered what support they could. The support offered to the operation primarily focused on technical support and propaganda. The technical support provided by the CIA…

indicates the notion that peace is not a human quality. Moreover, many individuals from Grotius to Hobbes have decreed that human nature is violent, nasty and brutish. Therefore, is it possible to achieve world peace? Due to the anarchic system within international society, the possibility of achieving a negative and positive peace is impossible because of state actors aggressive behavioural tendencies that can be conveyed through the liberal concept of peace, liberal democratic theory, realist…

Continuing to whitewash could cause more racism as time goes on, and underestimate the talents of all cultures. Several forms of whitewashing are present in the media. First of all, there is the version when a white actor portrays a character that is supposed to be another race. In the movie The Lone Ranger, Johnny Depp played a Native American character. This variation of whitewashing means any of the characters portrayed as white people no longer have the ethnic variety…

So far this paper has looked at the definitions of terrorism from scholars and official bodies. These definitions are wide and different, but they seem to include similar themes. Next, the paper explored the current state of affairs in Mexico and how cartels continue to operate. There are more than half a dozen large cartels working within the country, and a brief background on each has prepared for a thorough examination. To fully determine if cartels are terrorist organizations, the paper will…

injuries or even death of those that are abused. Non-physical violence is a more complicated term as it covers many subcategories of violence. The range of these categories is wide: it can be “emotional abuse, psychological maltreatment, verbal abuse, mental abuse, emotional maltreatment and psychological violence” (Sonkin). Although these types can be related to psychology or have features dealing with psychology of the people involved in violent acts, psychological violence is distinguished as…