Lesson 5: Interstate System Flashcards
Groups of independent states held together by a web of economic and strategic interests and pressures so that they are forced to take account of each other and those which make a conscious social contract by instituting rules and machinery to make their relations more orderly and predictable and to further certain shared principles and values.
International system
Is a concept for analysis or description of international politics or relations, but therein lies a sense of prescription for diplomatic or military action too
International system
It is predicated upon a definite notion of system. But it is not necessarily so when it is used to describe situations of international relations at a given time
International system
is a concept with which to analyze or describe mainly Politico-economic global situations, while its implications for political action are derived but only indirectly
World Systems
Came to be accepted as an academic term in the late 1950s, soon becoming fashionable, but more or less obsolete in the late 1990s
International system
Began to be discussed in the 1970s, still maintaining popularity in the academia
World Systems
Have taken the place of “international system” as an academic key word in the 1990s
International regimes” and “global governance
Is formed when two or more states have sufficient contact between them, and have sufficient impact on one another’s decisions, to cause them to behave—at least in some measure—as parts of a whole
International system
Exists when a group of states, conscious of certain common interests and common values, form a society, in the sense that they conceive themselves to be bound by a common set of rules in their relations with one another, and share in the working of common institutions
International society
States engage with one another in an environment known as the _____
International System.
Ended the Thirty Years’ War between Catholic states and Protestant states in western and central Europe, and established our modern international system
The Peace of Westphalia
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it emerged as the dominant political unit of the international system
Nation-state
Weaker states often banded together to prevent the dominant power from becoming too strong, a practice known as preserving the _____
Balance Of Power
After the second world war, only two great world powers remained: the United States and the Soviet Union. This global system was called _____ because the system centered on two great powers.
Bipolar
Since the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Soviet Union, the nature of the world has changed again. Only one superpower remains, leading some scholars to label the new international system as ___
Unipolar
