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                                      Game Theory Through the Russia-Ukraine War: How will Negotiations Go?         Though we may not realize it, we use game theory in our everyday lives. Game theory – the study of strategic decisions – uncovers more about politics and society than meets the eye. Recently, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky has announced that he wants to negotiate directly with Vladimir Putin to try to put an end to their long-simmering conflict. With the threat of nuclear war and WW3 looming, game theory proves that a roadmap to peace remains attainable (Bloomberg). I will be using game theory to discuss how it could tell us more about how the negotiations will pan out. Economist Alexander Wolitzky states that “While conditions of mistrust can lead to political violence, they may also change as antagonists better understand ...

 Kameron Schreffler The article "Silenced Voices in Global Health" by Katri Bertram, Ngozi Erondu, and Madhukar Pai   can be connected to the overall problems with the current public health system. There are several flaws in the Public health system, and this article highlights one of them. We need to fix these central issues if we want our public health system to be as effective as possible and have as many people live a healthy lifestyle as possible. Covid-19 has created an enormous problem in our public health system that shows the flaws in the system. Since Covid-19, the number of people with depression and anxiety has significantly increased as other social isolation problems have also been on the rise(O'Connor, 2022). According to O'Connor, "prolonged loneliness has been linked to a number of risk factors such as increased risks of high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity, and a range of mental conditions." A tremendous amount of people in this worl...

Are Human Rights Really Universal? Particularism Through a Cultural Relativist Lens The term “human rights” encompasses a wide variety of rights, some of which include: the right to life and freedom, freedom from slavery and torture, freedom of expression, and the right to work in just and favorable conditions. Upon its inception, the UDHR has raised significant questions surrounding what human rights are and whether they are universal or culturally relative or a mixture of the two. The connotation of “universal” (which is commonly associated with human rights) is that human rights are “present or occurring everywhere” (Merriam Webster). They apply to all beings by virtue. By definition, it is reasonable to say that human rights are universal, yet there are atrocities and genocide occurring all over the world. However, the reality is that human rights are not totally universal, as human rights in the U.S. and the Western world are not human rights in Rwanda. A journal article written b...

  John Wallace  Blog Post 4  When is war justified? A look at American justifications for war. In the world of ethics, there seems to be a general consensus that war is a terrible prospect for all parties involved. Many argue that the destructive nature of war has been never worth the potential benefits of diplomacy, which is an assessment that I happen to agree with. However, countless examples in history have shown that, in extreme cases, war can be a necessity over diplomacy. This is commonly in the form of wars of full-on aggression, where one nation invades another without any provocation. Many people liken wars such as these as completely morally bankrupt, devoid of any and all justification.  This lack of moral component has been a topic of heavy debate among many in the profession of international politics and even philosophy. Forcing such wars into the binary term of “Immoral” lacks basic subjectivity. To some, the invasion of Iraq had no moral basis for i...

  Ciara Farrell International politics Blog Post #4 The nations global health networks should be concerned with all countries that exist and the well- being of the population without under-representing anyone. A lot of global health organizations such as WHO, the World Health Organization, are not fully representing the global population and look past countries that are developing as well as certain populations such as women and those of the global south. The article, “Silenced Voices in Global Health” agrees that WHO is supposed to be dedicated to the well- being of all people and to give everyone an equal opportunity to live a healthy life. There is a lack of women and people from the global south being represented as well as being in leadership positions in global health. This lack of diversity, as it consists of mainly wealthy white men from developed countries, is causing much underrepresentation and will not allow for equality. This organization cannot boast their strive fo...

For the article “Terror and Abolition”, it is really something I have never heard about. In my experience and previous knowledge, I would consider all the “terrorism” as bad things which need to be eliminated, without thinking twice. However, now I start to think more about the reality and essence about those official terrorism. Consider of the definition of “terrorism”, which means an individual or a group uses violence, threat, or speech to achieve certain goals, they are supposed to be rejected and disrupted by the government for the safety issue. However, what if some people with leaderships also use the word “terrorism” as a convenient solution for some aggressive non-government organization? For example, in that article, the author points out the abuse of naming other people terrorists even though they didn’t harm anyone. This author Atiya Husain mainly expresses the potential relationship between racism and the public cognition of terrorism, which I think it totally makes sense....

Grant Voytovich POLS 170 Blog Four 4/19/2022 The reading titled “Silenced Voices in Global Health” by Katri Bertram, Ngozi Erondu,  and Madhukar Pai talks about the inequalities present in the global health care system.  They said that global health care is led primarily by “white, elite men.”  Additionally, the reach of global health care is a lot smaller than it should be.  This sounds exactly like what we’ve been talking about in my sociology class.  One of our readings that deals with this concept is titled “Privilege” by Shamus Khan.  Khan attended one of the most prestigious private high schools in the country called St. Paul’s School, and noticed a difference in his high school experience compared to other people.  He went back to St. Paul’s and observed everything about the school.  Khan found that the school was comprised of students coming from “elite” and privileged backgrounds, which makes sense because the school costs around 65,000 d...