Thomas Friedman Hal Herzog Summary

Capturing the Friedman’s is directed by Andrew Jarecki. The film focuses on the 1980’s investigation and conviction of Arnold Friedman and his son Jesse Friedman on charges of child molestation. This film could certainly be put into the category of accidental excellence as Andrew Jarecki was initially interested in creating a documentary on New York City clowns and it was only through his interviews with David Friedman (the most successful of Manhattan clowns) that he stumbled upon a goldmine of a back-story. The result is a fascinating and revealing documentary about suburban family dysfunction.

Typically, in popular depictions of arms races, the political calculations that start and regulate the pace of the game remain obscure. As Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr., has noted, “The strange result is that the activity of the other side, and not one’s own resources, plans, and motives, becomes the determinant of one’s behavior.” And what constitutes the “finish line” of the game is the province of assertion, rather than analysis. Many onlookers, and some participants, have claimed that the likelihood of war increases as the accumulation of arms proceeds apace.

Comment on Friedman's remark that 'technology is dividing us as much as uniting us', referring also to the photograph on the right.

Robert Jervis in ‘Security dilemma’ states that “states can neither neglect the possibility that others will become aggressive in the future nor credibly guarantee that they themselves remain peaceful”. He argued that although other motives such as ‘greed, glory and honour’ come into play, much of international politics is

According to the hegemonic stability theory, “a hegemonic power is necessary to support a highly integrated world economy.” (Nau 2007, 280) Nau explains that as long as there is a relative distribution of power, no one power can affect the system as a whole (280). When there are several equally competitive countries, the global economy reaches the model of a perfect market. Each state acts according to their self-interest, and such behavior leads to higher gains for everyone because “competition maximizes efficiency” (Nau 2007, 280) in a perfect market. However, there is no place for violence in a perfect market because a hegemon assures security by deploying a police force (Nau 2007, 280). Since there is usually no such force in the international system, many competitive nations have to fear violence. This is what the realists meant when they stated that in the multipolar world, nations cannot be sure about alliances. In addition, the United States and the Soviet Union were the two great powers after World War II; thus, they developed an example of a bipolar world, in which there are separate and self-governing “half-world” economies that includes very little trade with each other (Nau 2007, 280).

The theme of my essay is war and conflict. As it connects to economics, my research topic concerns the military industrial-complex, and my research question explores the influence of the military industrial complex on the perpetuance and expansion of war. It is through a brief introductory conversation on topic of the military industrial-complex, and the reading of a few article overviews later that I realize how much has been written about the topic, and thus, how significant of a topic the military industrial-complex is. Furthermore, it is through this process that I realize how the military industrial-complex is linked to war and/or the concept can be used as the all-encompassing reason to explain the many reasons countries state for going

Friedman, A. J., Boyko, S., Cosby, R., Hatton-Bauer, J., & Turnbull, G. (2009). Effective Teaching Strategies and Methods of Delivery for Patient Education. 37.

Those who are of above average to genius intelligence usually perform well in school, academically and go on to college and many have successful careers. The other end of the spectrum has created many schools have special programs for the developmentally disabled which there is a big need for. Yet what happens to those in the middle? Rabbi Aaron Friedman compares the middle of the road students to the middle class in the economy. It is a big issue yet not many people have a solution for them. He feels that rather than always putting the emphasis on the above average students which many schools like to tout we need to have smaller classes which will help more students be able to keep up in college and beyond. In order to not have more students fall through the cracks we need to focus on educating them the right way so they can make it through college and have successful careers.

In the International community, trade is considered to be a peaceful foreign policy. By design, it establishes cooperation between states and ultimately decreasing the likelihood and reason for war. In a way it does accomplish this because it makes states more dependent on each other and therefore less willing to go to war. However, there are states that hold more influence over other countries based on geographical and political factors. Thinking of the Hamiltonian policies makes it clear of why the United States continues to follow this policy, yet at the same time they still follow the Wilsonian foreign policy of policing the world and creating peace. Therefore, it becomes the question of a connection between both policies in how a

George Friedman, the head of the private intelligence firm Stratfor, knows his stuff. Despite the criticism of his book The Next 100 Years, as being outlandish and a little bit crazy, I found it to be an interesting worldview on the development of the world and geopolitics the next 100 years. While the suggestion of giant battle stations above Earth within 100 years seems outlandish we may have too consider space a military zone, despite international agreement that's suggest otherwise. The main thesis, as I understand it, is about how countries use and keep to an overarching Grand Strategy and that thinking in this way helps us understand international relations in the past and into the future. What I couldn't help think about in this book is how this geopolitics affect Australia.

Michael Gerson does a very good job of organizing his column and expressing clear thoughts.

In Chapter 6, Friedman discusses how to imagine the problems facing the world and the United States. "Imagine what would happen to us or to our lives and

Despite that warning, North Vietnam has increased its military aggression in all these areas, and particularly in Cambodia....

It can be said that in the case of the USA and North Korea, the current tensions developed further because of the start of nuclear weapons programmes in North Korea which created panic in US government (Pevehouse and Goldstein, 2017, p. 31). Realism highlights how this shift in the balance of power threatens US security as they are no longer a more

Snyder claims that realism failed to predict the Cold War. Given this, Mearsheimer states “China cannot rise peacefully.” Since realists describe the world as a self-help system, according to Posen, every country “must look to its own interests relative to those of others” and because “security is the preeminent issue in an anarchic world, the distribution of capabilities to attack and defend should matter.” Thus, because China’s strive for regional hegemony inevitably threatens the power dynamic of the global system, the U.S. will, according to Mearsheimer, take an offensive realist approach that will eventually lead to war. In addition, as seen in post-Cold War, economic stability greatly determines the distribution of power. Friedberg notes, that the projected “speed and magnitude of China’s growth in recent decades appears to be unprecedented” and as early as 2015, “China’s economy could overtake that of the United States.” Although the U.S. faces an unprecedented challenge to economic power, according to Ikenberry, China has signaled cooperation by “redoubling its participation in existing institutions, such as the ASEAN Regional Forum and the East Asia Summit or working with the other great powers in the region to build new ones.” Nevertheless, following the actions of the U.S. post WWII, China strategically makes “itself more predictable and approachable” to reduce “the incentives for other