Middle East Reading and Lesson Plan “The Middle East: Regional Disorder”
August 15, 2021
Author: Mr. Lakhaney
TOK Teacher
Mexico-US Relations Reading
August 15, 2021
The Inquiry Podcast: Is Zero Tolerance the Right Approach for FGM?
August 15, 2021
For more than two decades, the United Nations has led a fierce campaign against ‘Female Genital Mutilation’. And yet it still happens to millions of girls every year.
John McCain: Why We Must Support Human Rights
August 15, 2021
Human rights exist above the state and beyond history. They cannot be rescinded by one government any more than they can be granted by another. They inhabit the human heart, and from there, though they may be abridged, they can never be extinguished.
THE SECRET HISTORY OF ISIS
August 15, 2021
The inside story of the radicals who became the leaders of ISIS, the missed warning signs and the U.S. failures to stop the group’s brutal rise.
JOURNEY TO EXTREMISM IN AFRICA:
August 15, 2021
DRIVERS, INCENTIVES AND THE TIPPING POINT FOR RECRUITMENT
The Journey to Extremism in Africa: Drivers, Incentives and the Tipping Point for Recruitment presents the results of a two-year UNDP Africa study aimed to generate improved understanding about the incentives and drivers of violent extremism, as expressed by recruits to the continent’s deadliest groups themselves.
Vetoed! What’s wrong with the UN security council – and how it could do better
August 15, 2021
Watch United Nations power brokers – including the Russian, UK and US representatives to the UN – discuss its failings and how to fix them
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2015/sep/23/un-security-council-failing-70-years
70 years and half a trillion dollars later: what has the UN achieved?
August 15, 2021
The United Nations has saved millions of lives and boosted health and education across the world. But it is bloated, undemocratic – and very expensive.
How much of a part the UN played in holding nuclear armageddon at bay divides historians. But there is little doubt that in the lifetime that has passed since it was set up in 1945 it helped save millions from other kinds of hell. From the deepest of poverty. From watching their children die of treatable diseases. From starvation and exposure as they fled wars made in the cauldron of ideological rivalries between Washington and Moscow but fought on battlefields in Africa and Asia.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/07/what-has-the-un-achieved-united-nations
What is the UN general assembly?
August 15, 2021
As it celebrates its 70th annual session this autumn by launching the sustainable development goals, we look at the general assembly’s history and purpose
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/14/what-is-the-un-general-assembly
Political Realism in International Relations
August 15, 2021
Very thorough explanation of the concept of realism. Far more than would be needed for class but very thorough.
In the discipline of international relations there are contending general theories or theoretical perspectives. Realism, also known as political realism, is a view of international politics that stresses its competitive and conflictual side. It is usually contrasted with idealism or liberalism, which tends to emphasize cooperation. Realists consider the principal actors in the international arena to be states, which are concerned with their own security, act in pursuit of their own national interests, and struggle for power. The negative side of the realists’ emphasis on power and self-interest is often their skepticism regarding the relevance of ethical norms to relations among states. National politics is the realm of authority and law, whereas international politics, they sometimes claim, is a sphere without justice, characterized by active or potential conflict among states.
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