Learning Objectives

Chapter 16

  • Identify manifest and latent functions for war.
  • Explain how a war economy has operated in the United States.
  • Apply a conflict-oriented analysis to a particular war or conflict, identifying “who benefits” and “who loses.”
  • Discuss the role of rape in war and how war may operate differently on men and women’s bodies.
  • Critically examine how terrorism is defined, who are labeled as terrorists, and how the idea of terror is created – demonstrating an understanding of how these definitions can differ between countries and cultures.
  • Provide a definition of genocide and identify historical and modern examples of genocide.
  • Theorize about how or why genocide and mass killings happen or are allowed to happen, and why we see little intervention to these mass atrocities.