Violent non-state actor

In this article, David Skarbek refutes the widespread assumption that prisons are filled with violent thugs who cannot act irrationally. He demonstrates how criminals who break the rules and have been sentenced to long-term or life sentence are capable of creating rules, explicit and implicit, to establish an informal governance system that would serve them. Precisely, Skarbek attempts to explain “state-making” and systems of governance based on prison gangs in California. He argues that the…

Jews were forced to live. Polanski escaped from the ghetto when he was eight years old after his father cut a hole in a barbed-wire fence. Soon after, his parents were sent to concentration camps. Polanski spent the remainder of the war posing as a non-Jewish orphan and was taken in by several Catholic families in rural Poland. Shortly before the war ended, Polanski returned to Krakow, selling newspapers to make a living. His mother was killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp, but he was…

and states to attempt indirect approaches to warfare as they test the new balances of power and the limits of national and trans-national influences, or begin to influence resources and activities on the global commons. The following case studies are a small sampling to illustrate the applicability of Hart’s and Corbett’s…

Theater of Dionysus was built in Athens in 435 B.C. and had more than 17,000 seats; this theater served as a model for all theaters over the Mediterranean world. These early theaters were built out in the hillsides and had efficient acoustics. When an actor would deliver his speech, the actor’s words would be heard in all sections of the theater. There were sections in the theater for different groups of people. The theatron, or “seeing place,” was an area where the audience sat. The theatron…

In most entertainment the woman takes a back seat to the leading male actor. Colin Stokes (2012) did an outstanding job summing up the influence movies can have on society. One thing that he addressed was the Bechdel test. In order for a movie to pass this test it must meet three criteria: First, it must have more than…

the state is morally unjustifiable? Philosophical anarchists make the argument that obedience to state commands is unjustifiable as it fundamentally clashes with the individuals’ obligation to be morally autonomous. And in order for a state to function, it needs to be able to issue moral obligations. As Robert Paul Wolff puts it ‘The state is a group of persons who have and exercise supreme authority within a given territory’ (Wolff, p. 5). Further, Wolff argues that the authority of a state…

camera. They lack of non-diegetic shows that the film was not edited supporting the point of the limited editing. The Thin Blue Line does use non-diegetic music. There are already so many ways that it has proved its realism that the use of non-diegetic does take away from the realism of the film. It uses non0diegetic music to help the mise-en-scene. It creates feeling and the music is there for a purpose just as the absence of music in Cloverfield has a purpose. Both films clearly state their…

insertion of special forces with a great success. According to the National Security Strategy the United States Armed Forces must be in condition to face and conduct operations against terrorism and defend the nation at the same time. In addition, deter aggression and secure allies through presence and commitment. After the terrorist attacks born the question whether it is a just war attacking non-estate…

Terrorism is an act of violent and coercive crime that is almost universally condemned. However, there has never been a true agreement stating what qualifies as an act of terror. In today’s society terrorism is viewed by most as an act of evil, however there is no universal agreement on what terrorism actually defines, and certain acts that are defined as terrorism can be justified under certain circumstances. Terrorism also includes government leaders using suppression on its citizens. After…

globalization. Once again, their analysis has nothing to do with the nature of government or altruism is some form but rather with a purely calculation of cost and benefits. And their point being that under globalization, it’s going to be much harder for states to actually start…