Introduction to Philosophy Phil 100 ∙ Spring 2014 Professor Paul Burger Email paul.burger@csulb.edu Office Location MHB 805 Office Hours Tues. & Thurs. 3:30 – 4:30 PLEASE TURN OFF YOUR CELL PHONE! 1. Which of the following is not part of Mill’s Principle of Utility? A. Actions are to be judged right or wrong solely in virtue of their consequences and nothing else. B. In assessing the consequences of some act‚ the only thing that matters (from an ethical point of view) is the amount of happiness
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entrusted to work on further consolidating peace‚ reconciling communities and resolving conflicts in a very fragile environment‚ by then with weak governmental security institutions. Lessons for Somalia There are lessons learnt of bottom-up peacebuilding in Somaliland that can be applied in other parts of Somalia without just copying and pasting exactly as it worked here. There might be some contextual and time factors that are different‚ but holding on the central idea of local reconciliation and peacebuilding
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changed the outcome. The Battle of Mogadishu might have been avoided altogether‚ had the employment of Army counterintelligence (CI) assets been properly utilized‚ resulting in a successful outcome for the Operation Restore Hope humanitarian mission in Somalia. Battle Analysis Step 1: Define the Subject/Evaluate the Resources The Battle of Mogadishu
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References: Jeffrey T. Manuszak (1994). The United States Army in Somalia 1992-1994 http://www.history.army.mil/brochures/Somalia/Somalia.htm Andrew Vogt (2010) from http://www.bukisa.com/articles/335688_constructivism-international-relationstheory-in-brief Yu-tai Tsai (2009) Jackson (2006). Social constructivism: Constructivism as social theory‚
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open-ended commitment. It was not a commission of nation building‚ not warlord hunting‚ or any of the other extraneous activities which we seem to have been engaged in. If the President of the United States cannot say‚ ’Here is what we are fighting for in Somalia‚ that more Americans may perish in service to the goals‚ and here is why it is worth that price‚’ then‚ Mr. President‚ we have no right--no
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THE MODERN MEDIA: THE IMPACT ON FOREIGN POLICY A thesis presented to the Faculty of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree MASTER OF MILITARY ART AND SCIENCE Strategy by SIMON J. HULME. MAJOR‚ ROYAL ENGINEERS‚ UNITED KINGDOM Graduate Junior Division of The Staff College‚ British Army Command and Staff College‚ Camberley‚ Surrey‚ England‚ 1996 Fort Leavenworth‚ Kansas 2001 Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited
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costs associated with a Balkan intervention. Nevertheless‚ states act for reasons. They do not intervene in a far off land simply because to do so will not endanger their security. President Bush’s decision to intervene to alleviate starvation in Somalia is an example of a compliant response to the norm prescribing intervention. The regulative function of a norm is that which regulates or constrains behavior by altering the consequences of a given behavior and thereby forcing a recalculation of how
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disastrous battle in Mogadishu that took place in Somalia in October 1993. The movie specifically focuses on a group of US soldiers who go into Somalia as part of a U.N. Peacekeeping operation. The overall mission was for troops to capture leaders and the Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid. Aidid and his militia took Red Cross food shipments and pressured groups of people to cooperate leading to widespread famine‚ hunger and poverty throughout Somalia. As the US enters in to perform their ‘humanitarian’
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Gravity (COG) – “a source of power that provides moral or physical strength‚ freedom of action‚ or will to act. An objective is always linked to a COG. In identifying COGs it is important to remember that irregular warfare focuses on legitimacy and influence over a population‚ unlike traditional warfare‚ which employs direct military confrontation to defeat an adversary’s armed forces‚ destroy an adversary’s war-making capacity‚ or seize or retain territory to force a change in an adversary’s government
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Food the next need for war! Introduction If I were to add one more factor that would cause a threat to the world peace would be – food. The Gleneagles Summit held around three years ago initiated the world to the need to focus on long-overdue attention on Africa. Promises were made and gave the people of Africa a new hope. Looking forward and taking into consideration of the year 2008‚ when world leaders gathered at United Nations (UN) headquarters to study the progress in meeting the Millennium
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