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  • The Rohingya genocide is a series of ongoing persecutions by the Myanmar (formerly Burmese) government against the Muslim Rohingya people
  • The genocide has consisted of two phases to date: the first occurred from October 2016 to January 2017 and the second has been occurring since August 2017
  • The crisis forced over a million Rohingya to flee to other countries. Most fled to Bangladesh while others escaped to India, Thailand, Malaysia, and other parts of South and Southeast Asia
  • Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein
    Served as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2014 to 2018
  • Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein: 'Myanmar will not allow investigators to fully assess what's happening to the Muslim Rohingya community, but the situation seems like a textbook example of ethnic cleansing'
  • A study estimated in January 2018 that the military and local Rakhine Buddhists killed at least 24,000 Rohingya people and perpetrated gang rapes and other forms of sexual violence against 18,000 Rohingya Muslim women and girls; 116,000 Rohingya were beaten, and 36,000 were thrown into fires
  • Aung San Suu Kyi
    The first and incumbent State Counsellor (a position equivalent to prime minister) of Myanmar
  • As of Tuesday (September 2017), about 370,000 Rohingya had crossed the border into Bangladesh
  • The US joined those criticizing the military operation, saying "The massive displacement and victimization of people… shows that Burmese security forces are not protecting civilians"
  • Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visited refugees in makeshift camps and implored Myanmar to allow them to return safely
  • Myanmar got an important note of support from China, which said it backed the government's moves toward "stability"
  • More than 400,000 people have signed a petition seeking to have Aung San Suu Kyi's Nobel Peace Prize withdrawn
  • Global North
    Rich, Industrialized, Wealthy Nations, Democratic Capitalist Countries
  • Global South
    Developing Nations, Non-Democratic Countries, Failing Democracy
  • The Group of Eight (G8)

    • France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Japan, the United States, Canada, and Russia
  • The North makes up 1/4 of the world, controls four-fifths of the income earned anywhere in the world, and owns 90% of the manufacturing industries
  • The South makes up 3/4 of the world, only 5% of the population has enough food and shelter, and has access to one-fifth of the world income
  • The South lacks appropriate technology, has no political stability, has disarticulated economies, and their foreign exchange earnings depend on primary product exports
  • Realism
    States are always in a state of "war" economically, the global community is more or less competitive, each state acts in its own best interest at the expense of other states, no one regulates this behavior, the international system is considered anarchic, it is normal to be competitive
  • Liberalism
    States tend cooperate because anarchy exists, anarchy has been overcome by legitimizing power in institutions, reciprocity: we behave on the basis on how others behave towards us, frequent interactions makes us interdependent to other countries
  • Constructivism
    "Anarchy is what states make of it", logic of appropriateness: States try to do the same thing, reality can be changed because it is only constructed, global capitalism is strong because it is the global norm, but it can be changed if we decide to
  • Marxism
    Class struggle among states, states are exploited by more powerful states, smaller states provides resources and man-power to the powerful countries, capitalism = imperialism/colonialism, related to World-Systems theory
  • Globalism
    Global economic integration is not only inevitable given the rise of new technologies; it is, more importantly, a normative international goal. To not partake to globality is backward
  • Civilization Discourse
    Dominant ideology of colonialism and the logic that shaped the birth of international order
  • Modernization theory
    Outlined the historical progression terms of a society's capacity to produce and consume material goods