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1: The Global Interstate Sytem Flashcards

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It is the country and government

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State

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STATE or NATION

Exercises authority over a specific population

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State

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The practice of conducting negotiations between states

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Diplomacy

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Importance of diplomacy

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Prevents conflicts and fosters cooperation

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A set of rules and norms governing relations between states

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International law

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What’s the role of international law

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Promotes peace and justice, resolves disputes

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What are the 2 power types

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Hard power: military, economic
Soft power: cultural, diplomatic

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Package of treaties that ended the ____ years European wars of religion

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Peace of Westphalia ; 30 years

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  1. The principle of state sovereignty
  2. The principle of legal equality if states
  3. The principle of non-intervention of one state in the internal affairs of another
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3 core points of the Westphalian Treaty

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System of heightened interaction between various sovereign states, particularly the desire for greater cooperation and unity among states and people

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Internationalism

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Who coined the term “international”?

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Jeremy Bentham

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It is the law between states

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International law

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Nationalism and international cooperation complimented each other

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Mazzini’s Nationalist Internationalism

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Nations were subject to the universal laws of God

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Wilsonian internationalism

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It’s goal is to maintain world peace through international arbitration

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League of Nations

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It is the product of the Bolshevik victory in Russia

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Communist International

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Created to preserve peace after the war

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United Nations

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29 countries participated in this conference

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Bandung Conference

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Was established to combat colonialism and neocolonialism by either the US or the USSR

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The Bandung Conference

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It has a structure of government

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state

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Has sovereignty over its territory

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State

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It determines a state’s ability to shape international outcomes

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Role of power and influence in the interstate system

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States are considered _______

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Sovereign (independent)

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Which international organizations and institutions facilitate relations between states

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Organization - UN
Institutions - IMF, WB

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The authority of a state to govern itself without outside interference
Sovereignty
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A state in which the political entity (state) and the cultural (nation) coincide
Nation-States
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What is the importance of sovereignty in international relations
Basis of state legitimacy
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Who are the primary actors of the global interstate system?
Nation-states
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Country/Nation-state is composed of 2 non-interchangeable terms: Not all ____ are _____ and not all ____ are _____
Not all _states_ are _nations_ and not all _nations_ are _states_
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- a relatively modern phenomenon in human history - People identified units as small as their village/ tribe or Christendom
Country/nation-state
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An imagined community
Nation
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Limited, has boundaries: rights and responsibilities are mainly the privilege and concern of the citizens
Nation
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It facilitates state formation
Nationalism
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It allows the creation of nation-states
Ntionalist movements
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What happened during WW1
*Collapse of empires* (ottoman, Russian, austro-hungarian, German empires), *creation of new nation-states* (creation of countries like Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and Poland)
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When did WW1 happened?
1914-1918 (4 years )
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What happened in WW2
Emergence of the US and USSR as Superpowers: weakening of traditional powers like UK, France, and Germany
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When did WW2 happen?
1939-1945 (6 years)
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What happened in World War 2?
*Bipolar World Order*: the world becae divided into 2 spheres of influence, led by the US *Arms Race*: both the US and USSR engaged in a massive arm rave, particularly focusing on nuclear weapons *Proxy Wars*: regional conflicts *Ideological Conflict*: an ideological battle
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When did the Cold War happened?
1947-1991(40 years)
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Was founded to promote peace, security, and cooperation
United nations
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It overseas international trade agreements
World trade organization
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It aims to reduce trade barriers and resolve disputes
World trade organization
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Who is the emperor of the french empire
Napoleon bonaparte
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It's sought to spread the principles of the french revolution across europe
Napoleon bonaparte
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It sought to restore europe to world before french revolution and napoleon
The concert of europe
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Alliances of austria, prussia, russian empire, united kingdom agreed to maintain _____
Balance of power
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Would support each other if any revolutions broke out
The concert of europe
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1. Return of the monarchy 2. Return of Christian values in Europe 3. Repudiation of the Napoleonic Code 4. Renewed peace in Europe through great power diplomacy
Tenets of the Concert
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What are the Tenets of the Concert?
1. Return of the monarchy 2. Return of Christian values in Europe 3. Repudiation of the Napoleonic Code 4. Renewed peace in Europe through great power diplomacy
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Westphalian and Concert systems divided the world into separate, sovereign entities/ interstate system
Internationalism
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Who said this? Until now, states are considered sovereign. "great powers" still hold significant influence over world politics
UN's security council
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Who said this? First states in their relation to each other, there cannot be any reasonable way out of the lawless condition which they, Like individual men, should give up their savage freedom, adjust themselves to the constraints of public law, Enters establish a continuously growing State consisting of various Nations which will ultimately include all the nations of the world
Immanuel Kant
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- Agreements among states merely avert war - nations needed to give up their freedom and subject themselves to a larger systems of law - a form of global government needed to create and enforce this laws
The birth of liberal internationalism
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" the end that a disinterested legislator upon international law would propose to himself would... be the greatest happiness of all nations take together"
Jeremy Bentham
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An architect of Italian unification, ardent nationalist and major critic of the metternich system
Giuseppe mazzini
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Define liberal internationalism as cooperation and respect among nation- states
Mazzini and Wilson
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Find liberal internationalism as the idea of common international principles
Kant
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Defined liberal Internationalism as promotion of global democracy
Wilson
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Founded in the 1919 Paris Peace Conference after WW1
League of Nations
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The birth of task-specific international organizations
League of nations
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Organization of labor and socialist parties, mainly in europe
The Socialist International
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What are the achievements of the socialist international
8 hour working day, international women's day, may 1
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Collapsed in _____ as its member parties supported the war efforts of their respective states
The socialist international; 1916
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*Vladimir Lenin's* tool to promote revolution
Communist international (comintern)
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It is the central body for all communist parties across the world
Communist international
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What was the major challenge to internationalism
Fascism
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He saw both variants internationalism as an attack on the nation
Hitler
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Believed in the primacy of ethnic majorities
Fascists
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Believed in regional spheres of influence
Fascist
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Believed in regional spheres of influence
Fascist
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Reinforced principles of sovereignty and non-intervention
United Nations
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After world war 2, cold war divided the world
1st world: NATO and the Western Alliance 2nd world: communist countries 3rd world: those caught in between the superpowers
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It was the first time that developing countries have participated
The Bandung conference
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"Colonialism is not yet dead. How can we say it is dead, so long as vast areas of Asia and Africa are unfree"
Indonesian president Sukarno at Bandung Conference
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- 3rd world solidarity - cementing the emphasis on national development against "neocolonial intervention" - regionally driven internationalism
Legacies of bandung
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Who developed the concept "imagined community"?
Benedict Anderson

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