Global Politics Flashcards
Who: State
Compulsory political organization
Weber
Who: State
Independent political communities
Bull
Who: Nation
“An imagined political community- and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign”
Anderson (1991)
Who: Nation-States
“Membership associations with a collective identity and a
democratic pretension to rule”
Joppke (1998)
Golden Straightjacket and Electronic Herd are both coined by?
Thomas Friedman
Describes how states are now forced into policies that
suit the preferences of investment houses and corporate executives
Golden Straightjacket
- Grown exponentially due to the democratization of finance, technology and information
- Moves money swiftly
Electronic Herd
- Created the conditions for deregulation, privatization, free trade to spread around the world
- Prompted the world’s poorer states to orient their production and attract world’s wealthiest banks, corporations and investors
Laissez-faire economics
According to Rafael Barajas Duran
The main impact of globalization is ___
Exploitation
- Has 27 member states (in July 2013, Croatia became a member as 28th state)
- Have a single monetary currency among 17
member states
European Union (EU)
- A common citizenship
- Affords citizens of the member states the rights to live, work, vote, and even run for office in European parliamentary elections outside their native member state
Maastricht Treaty (1992)
- The top dispute resolution body for the EU and its predecessors
- Has set provisions such as ‘direct effect’ and ‘supremacy’
European Court of Justice (ECJ) - 1952
- It resolves two sets of laws that came into conflict that must follow the EU law
- Had been forced by a lot of states to follow their own laws to fit supranational norms
European Court of Justice (ECJ) - 1952
- Part of a larger organization which is Council of Europe
- Issued landmark decisions in areas such as freedom of religion, protection from discrimination, and the right to a fair trial
European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)
- Upholds the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR)
- Has 47 member states, 28 of which are members of the EU
Council of Europe
- Served as the first female Prime Minister of UK from 1979 to 1990
- Britain’s Conservative Party forced her out of office as PM after an internal row over Europe
MARGARET THATCHER (The Iron Lady)
- Has shown early stages of European integration
- Provided the member states with a crucial vehicle to rehabilitate themselves and liquidation of their empires abroad during post-World War II
ALAN MILWARD (Historian)
- Peace settlement or treaty where a number of countries were confirmed in their sovereignty (power or authority) over territories
- After World War II, there was a turn away from the model of state sovereignty
Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- Failure of the League of Nations strengthened collective will to start a new international organization
- Set up in the summer and autumn of 1945 in the San Francisco Conference
United Nations (1945)
- ad hoc tribunals (court of justice)
- To prosecute individuals accused of genocide (massacre) and other crimes against humanity
International Criminal Court (2002)
- Resulted from a consensus made by the Security Council
- A global political commitment to address its four key concerns to prevent genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity
The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) Doctrine
A horizontal linkage among national governments where they share information, agree to common standards and work side by side in different areas
Transgovernmental Networks (TGNs)
