Chapter 1

Question 1

Why is IR important and what led to its first major developments?

Answer 1

Ir is important because it looks to understand how IR affects different countries around the world in positive or negative way. First IR developments after the first world war to avoid future great power war.

Question 2

What is a state/ what is the main purpose of a state?

Answer 2

Territory based social organization made to maintain and defend basic social conditions and values

Question 3

What are the main 5 social conditions/ values that states are meant to uphold?

Answer 3

Freedom, security, order, welfare and justice

Question 4

As per a traditional view, how did the political change from medieval to modern occur?

Answer 4

Involved territorial states establishing institutions across Europe; essentially their POV is that the state takes the land of that place and declares it to be state property and then takes over the people of the land and make them their subjects or citizens. - relates to caging

Question 5

What can be described as the end of the medieval era and the start of the modern era?

Answer 5

The 30 years war and the end of it with the Peace of Westphalia. (traditional/ classical view)

Question 6

What was the Peace of Westphalia?

Answer 6

Two treaties at the end of the Thirty Year War, which gave confirmed sovereignty to states over specific territories.

Question 7

True or False; Non European states that were not colonized still had to follow and accept the Western state system?

Answer 7

True.

Question 8

What were the stages of globalization?

Answer 8

1. The migration of the western states to the Americas
2. The incorporation (forceful) of Non European states that could not be colonized into the Western state system
   - They still had to follow the western state system
3. The Anti colonialism of the subjects of the western empires.
   - people no longer wanted to be under their rule and fought back to make their own states ( expanded a lot ofter WWII)
4. Dissolution of the Soviet Union + break up of Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia

Question 9

What do theorists agree is at the centre of IR?

Answer 9

States and the state system are at the centre of IR

Question 10

What are the two categories of the first dimension of the state?

Answer 10

1. Internal; viewed from within, the government is the state- state-soceity relationship, how the state rules its people
2. External; as a country, both the government and the society make up the state

Question 11

General Traditonal/classic view vs revisionist?

Answer 11

traditional usually see states as positive and desirable and revisionist see them as negative and harmful