The University of Warwick (UOW) • Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Revision notes on Covert Action for Vigilant State. Topics covered: - Why study covert action? - Definitions - Risks, drawbacks and dilemmas - Morality - Measurement - Culture and Propaganda - CIA and covert action - A range of literature summaries (including Saunders, Koch, Lucas, Wilford, Laville, Aldrich, Paget)

Revision notes on Accountability and Oversight for Vigilant State. Topics covered: - Accountability - Intelligence and Security Committee - Globalisation - Oversight - International Oversight

Revision notes on Environmental Justice in Political Theory. Topics covered: - Distributive justice - Anthropocentrism - Zoocentrism - Biocentrism - Atomistic eco-centrism - Climate change - Intergenerational justice - Carbon emissions and burden-sharing - Polluter Pays Principle - Beneficiary Pays Principle - Ability to Pay Principle - Futurity puzzle - Non-identity problem

Revision notes on Legitimacy and Democracy in Political Theory. Topics covered: - Legitimacy - Democracy - Authority - Intrinsic and instrumental view of democracy - Procedural democracy - Democratic equality - Social choice theory - Epistocracy - Publicity and representation - Judicial review - Rational proceduralism

Revision notes on Non-Human Animals in Political Theory. Topics covered: - Moral Status and Justice Status - Zoocentrism - Welfarism - Subject-centrism - Meat eating and farming - Singer: Preference Utilitarianism - Regan: Subjects-of-a-life

Revision notes on Political Obligation and Consent in political theory. Topics covered: - Political obligation - Consent - Morality - Tacit consent - Coercion - Hypothetical consent - Utilitarianism - Normative consent - Gratitude and fairness - Philosophical anarchism

Revision notes on Public Goods. Topics covered: - Public choice, public bads and Ostrom - Common Pool Resource Regimes - Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) - Climate Change - Global Governance - Free Rider Problem - State Provision of Public Goods - Collective Provision of Public Goods - Global Public Goods - Solving Non-Participation - Governing the Commons

Revision notes on Interest Groups. Topics covered: - Pluralism - Arbiter and arena theory - Olson's critique - Privileged and intermediate groups - Role of business and NGOs - Political participation and leadership - Business associations - State corporatism - Rent-seeking and informational lobbying

Revision notes on Institutions. Topics covered: - Old and new institutionalism - Historical institutionalism - Path dependency - Explaining change - Gradual change - Policy instruments and governance - New historical institutionalism - Rational choice institutionalism - Discursive institutionalism - Exogenous and endogenous change

International Security lecture notes. Topics include: - War and Clausewitz - Causes of War - Military-Industrial Complex and arms trading - Nuclear weapons - Ethnic conflict - Contemporary Western warfare - Security studies: realism, liberalism - Securitisation: critical security studies, post-structuralism, feminism, post-colonialism - Security dilemma and democratic peace theory - Just war theory, humanitarian intervention and R2P - Terrorism and counter-terrorism - Resource, energy and enviro...