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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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13
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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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17
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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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19
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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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21
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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

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Sovereignty

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A state in which the political entity (state) and the cultural (nation) coincide

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Nation-States

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What is the importance of sovereignty in international relations

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Basis of state legitimacy

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28
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Who are the primary actors of the global interstate system?

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Nation-states

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29
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Country/Nation-state is composed of 2 non-interchangeable terms:

Not all ____ are _____ and not all ____ are _____

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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
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Country/nation-state

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An imagined community

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Nation

32
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Limited, has boundaries: rights and responsibilities are mainly the privilege and concern of the citizens

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Nation

33
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It facilitates state formation

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Nationalism

34
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It allows the creation of nation-states

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Ntionalist movements

35
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What happened during WW1

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Collapse of empires (ottoman, Russian, austro-hungarian, German empires), creation of new nation-states (creation of countries like Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and Poland)

36
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When did WW1 happened?

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1914-1918 (4 years )

37
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What happened in WW2

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Emergence of the US and USSR as Superpowers: weakening of traditional powers like UK, France, and Germany

38
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When did WW2 happen?

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1939-1945 (6 years)

39
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What happened in World War 2?

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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

40
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When did the Cold War happened?

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1947-1991(40 years)

41
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Was founded to promote peace, security, and cooperation

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United nations

42
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It overseas international trade agreements

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World trade organization

43
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It aims to reduce trade barriers and resolve disputes

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World trade organization

44
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Who is the emperor of the french empire

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Napoleon bonaparte

45
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It’s sought to spread the principles of the french revolution across europe

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Napoleon bonaparte

46
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It sought to restore europe to world before french revolution and napoleon

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The concert of europe

47
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Alliances of austria, prussia, russian empire, united kingdom agreed to maintain _____

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Balance of power

48
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Would support each other if any revolutions broke out

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The concert of europe

49
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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
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Tenets of the Concert

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What are the Tenets of the Concert?

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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
51
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Westphalian and Concert systems divided the world into separate, sovereign entities/ interstate system

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Internationalism

52
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Who said this?

Until now, states are considered sovereign. “great powers” still hold significant influence over world politics

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UN’s security council

53
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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

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Immanuel Kant

54
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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
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The birth of liberal internationalism

55
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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”

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Jeremy Bentham

56
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An architect of Italian unification, ardent nationalist and major critic of the metternich system

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Giuseppe mazzini

57
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Define liberal internationalism as cooperation and respect among nation- states

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Mazzini and Wilson

58
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Find liberal internationalism as the idea of common international principles

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Kant

59
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Defined liberal Internationalism as promotion of global democracy

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Wilson

60
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Founded in the 1919 Paris Peace Conference after WW1

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League of Nations

61
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The birth of task-specific international organizations

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League of nations

62
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Organization of labor and socialist parties, mainly in europe

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The Socialist International

63
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What are the achievements of the socialist international

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8 hour working day, international women’s day, may 1

64
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Collapsed in _____ as its member parties supported the war efforts of their respective states

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The socialist international; 1916

65
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Vladimir Lenin’s tool to promote revolution

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Communist international (comintern)

66
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It is the central body for all communist parties across the world

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Communist international

67
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What was the major challenge to internationalism

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Fascism

68
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He saw both variants internationalism as an attack on the nation

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Hitler

69
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Believed in the primacy of ethnic majorities

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Fascists

70
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Believed in regional spheres of influence

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Fascist

71
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Believed in regional spheres of influence

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Fascist

72
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Reinforced principles of sovereignty and non-intervention

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United Nations

73
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After world war 2, cold war divided the world

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1st world: NATO and the Western Alliance
2nd world: communist countries
3rd world: those caught in between the superpowers

74
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It was the first time that developing countries have participated

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The Bandung conference

75
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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”

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Indonesian president Sukarno at Bandung Conference

76
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  • 3rd world solidarity
  • cementing the emphasis on national development against “neocolonial intervention”
  • regionally driven internationalism
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Legacies of bandung

77
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Who developed the concept “imagined community”?

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Benedict Anderson

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