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defien state
state is a defined territory with a sovereign government that exercises authority over its population.
define soveign
a power with no higher authority
defien territorial integraty
the idea that teh borders of a state should be respected and upheld by other states
what are normes
widely accepted standards of behavior
whats is the westphalian model
a serrise of agreement that first layed out the principals of state sovereignty and territorial intergraty that emerged in 1648 after the 30 years war in europe.
what is intervention
interference of external bodies, such as states or international organizations, in the affairs of another country or region to protect rigths. this may undermine teh durastiction of the government and tehrefore the soverignty of teh state.
what is geo politics
Geopolitics is the study of how physical geography, along with political, economic, and social factors, influences international relations
what are the 4 factors that challenge soverignty and territorial integraty ? (list)
- current political boundaries
- TNC’s
- poltical dominace of ethnic groups
- supernational insitutions
explain how current politicla boundaries can erode soverignty and territorial integraty
Point- disputed territory
example- in 2014 both Russia and Ukrain thought they had the rights to the Crimean Peninsula. The Russian government claims that the annexation was based on a referendum held in Crimea, in which the majority of voters supported joining Russia, this may have been teh case as the 2001 unkrainian sensus data suggests 58% of the population considered themself ethnically russian. They also wanted a year round port in sevastopol. this resulted in the annexation later that year by “little green men” ( disguised russian soldjers) who predominatly peacefully inundated teh country.
** Expain** this was an issue to both soverignty and teritorial integraty as russia challened the internationally recognised borders and sovergin contrile of the ukrainian government in the region, as first established in the westphlian model.
why sdid russia claim they annex crimea
- an internal referendum
what % of crimeans considered themself ethnically russian according to 2001 unkrain census data
58%
explain how current TNC can erode soverignty and territorial integraty
territorial integraty and soverignty
* point - TNC’s arguably often carry out land appropriation.
* evidence
* For exampel United Fruit Company took land in Guatemala in the 50s without governemnt autharisation. When governemnt pushed back wanting expropriation of land for its people to farm. The company exersted significant economic and political influence to pressure the U.S. government in the campaign to overthrow the democrtically elected leader Árbenz, which eventually succeeded in 1954.
* expalian - this shows how TNC’s are significnat players on the world stage undermining the teritorial integraty of a state by takeing land and then even helping in overthrowing governemnts, dirrectly overthrowing not evn eroding soverignty.
whats it called when a politic;aly body or organisation takes land of a state in a backhanded way
land appropriation
how can supernational insitutions undermine soverignty and territorial integratry in terms of teh EU
- point - pooling soverignty into supernational insitutions.
- explain - when a country joins a supernational insitution its surrenderes some of its powers to the jurastiction of said body as it will have its own set of laws and norms teh state will then have to abode by. this can also expand to undermine the countries territorial integraty as they may lose certain legislagtive powers over areas.
- evidence a exaple where this rings particularly true is teh Factortame case 1989 which was court case taken to the house of lods involving spanish fishermen fishing in Uk waters and the uk governemnt who aposed them as they claimed they had durastiction over the english channel. However, the lords claimed that EU regulation reigned superior and therfore ther fisheren were in their rigths. This demostrates how joining supernational insitution can undermine the legislagtive power of governemnt and their controle over maritine borders.
what country did United fruit company take land from in teh early 50s and who was the president they funded teh US canpeign to undermine when he tried to push to get land back
- Guatemala
- Jacabo Árbenz
how can supernational insitutions undermine soverignty interm of intervention for human rigth purposes
- Point This can involve actions such as peacekeeping operations, sanctions, or economic pressure to compel a state to improve its human rights record.
- explaindirect intervention is an issue as it arguably undermines th durastiction of of governemnt in certain areas if the UN for exaple did not have permission to come in. However, these are usually quite politiclaly unstabel countries like war zones so it unclear who the soverign authoraties are.
- example an exaple of this occuring in economic policy is During the era of apartheid in South Africa, which was characterized by systematic racial segregation and discrimination, the UN Security Council passed resolutions imposing economic sanctions on the country. These sanctions aimed to isolate the South African government and pressure it to end its discriminatory policies and human rights abuses.
- explain this is a challenege to soverignty as it is esentually coptation of governemtn.
how to pell apartheid
apartheid
whats one last way that supernational insitutions can undermien soverignty
- point veto
- explain - UN security counsil involving 5 permeinat member states who can veto legislation
- evidence - In December 2017, the UNSC0 considered a draft resolution that aimed to impose an arms embargo on South Sudan. however Russia and china vetoed this
- exaplin this undemined the soverignty of natons that arent apart of the security counsil as tehy do not have the same powers, therefore it can be argued these individual countrieds can undermine the sovernpower of the others to a greater degree. under westphalian model soveign staes are equal
whats an arms embargo
An arms embargo is a form of international trade restriction that prohibits the sale, transfer, or provision of weapons and military equipment to a specific country or conflict zone.
explain how teh political domination of ethnic groups can erode soverignty and territorial integratry
- point undermines the sov of gov though conflic and politicla instabillity or even coups
- evidece - Dinka and Nuer and poitical instabillity and warfair for peopel
- evidence - Tuareg launching an armed rebellion and gaining semi controle over northern mali in 2012 as a atateless nation. There was also involvemnt of Al-Qaeda.
- expain conflic and unrest undrmined the governemts territorial integraty in the area and thir soverign controel.
why was the tuareg rebellion in 2012 and how did it play out coinsing ith the state
- the millitary coup resulted in a power vacume allowing them to exploit the instabillity. The coup resulted in a transitional governemtn taking controle before deocratic election could be restored. the trnaitional governemnt ( with help from the french), lead the millatry operation in the north).
whats your case study for one country where soverignty has been challenged ?
Ukraine (pre 2022)
how to spell ukraine
Ukraine
what are teh key causes in the caused and challenegd to ukrainian soverignty form russia
- geogrphical position between russsia and the EU/nato
- Ethnic disparities: ethniclly russian populations ( beuse of the soviet union alot of people idetify as ethiniclly russian)
1. ( over 58% of crimeans ideftify as ethically russian 2001 and over 37% of people in the domas region) - internal poliical devsion
1. most of dombas and almost all of crime voted for the pro russian candiate victor yankovitch in the 2010 and are pro russia vs pro EU/nato vs the opersite in the west. the east also have a lot of regions where russian is peoples first language vs ukrainian in the west
2. e.g 75% of the population of donesk said russian was their first languge accorfing to 2001 sensus data - these are consequenses of the inabillity to create a nation state/ common national idenity after the fall of the soviet union.