Other Actors and State as international actor

Question 1

MNCs

Answer 1

• Great organizations with interest in many countries and territories
• Organize productive sets in different ambits and in global level

Question 2

Political Parties

Answer 2

• The political and ideological internationalization of political parties is very common through history
• The process has been accelerated by the blocks that emerged in the post war period
• We can see international association by liberals, socialist, democrats…

Question 3

State Blocks/ Groups

Answer 3

• A nation that acquires the status of States aspires to make part of the organized bodies of the international community
• They are created according to common interest, agenda, motivations, geography.

Question 4

Trade unions

Answer 4

• In the 1919 was created the Cristian Confederations of Trade Unions, in the Hague.
• After that, in the 1920, it was replaced by the World Confederation of Labour.
• The WCL was dissolved in 2006 to join the Internationational Trade Union Confederation.
• World Federation of Trade Unions- 1945

Question 5

Religion

Answer 5

• Big religions were made to be universal
  * Cristians
  * Islam
  * Judaism
• Different religions act through their organizations to influence on the spaces of decision making on the international arena.
• Vatican State.

Question 6

Media

Answer 6

• They have an important place on IR. Their power of influence is huge.
• It is an important vehicle of diffusion (ideas, action, and pressure to the governments).

Question 7

States are :

Answer 7

• Territory
• Sovereignty
• People
• Government

• Every State, their fore must have its population, a definite territory, a duly established government, and Sovereignty. The absence of any of these elements denies It the status of Statehood.

Question 8

Territory

Answer 8

• Moreover, international relations conduct would be seriously impeded with drool the requirement of a defined territory.
• Land, water, and airspace within the defined territorials are comprise the territory of the state. Its embraces the state’s geophical limits, its rivers and lakes, the natural resources it has, and the airspace above. Generally, the territorial limits extend to a distance of three miles (4.4 km) of the sea from the coast
• The should be some proportion between the population and the territory of the state. If there is a disproportionate disparity between the two, the state must suffer from all those economic and political disabilities which are natural to such a situation.

Question 9

Soverignty

Answer 9

• tHe sovereignty of the state is its most essential and distinguishable feature. As people inhabiting a define portion of territory and having a government do not constitute a state.
• The sovereignty of the state has two aspects, internal and external sovereignty. Internal sovereignty is the state’s monopoly of authority inside its boundaries.
• The authority cannot be shared with any other state, and none of its members within its territory can owe obedience to any other state. If the state admits no rival within its own territory, it logically follows that it has no authority outside its own territory.

Question 10

People

Answer 10

• The state is a human institution the product of man’s gregarious nature and the result of necessities of human life.
• Population and land are the starting point of any study of man in his organized groups. It is the people who make the state; without them, there can be none. But the population must be large enough to make a state and sustain it.
• Population must be sufficient to maintain a state organization, and it should not be more than what the state’s territorial resources are capable of supporting.

Question 11

Government

Answer 11

• The purpose of living together cannot be realized unless they are properly organized and accept certain rules of conduct
• The agency created to enforce such rules of conduct and to ensure obedience is called government
• Government is the focus of the common purpose of the people occupying a definite territory.
• The state cannot exist without a government, no matter what form of government they assume.

Question 12

The concept of nation

Answer 12

• A nation is when a body of people feels a sense of unity based on a common history, language, religion, culture, traditions and identifies with a particular geographical location.
• Nations that have independent governments are called nation-states.
• Origin with the modern state, as a natural and unitary form that states aspire on the ideal of a nation-state

Question 13

Nationalism

Answer 13

Decentralization process
• Plurinational process
• Legitimation of the nation through the idea of nation, demands autonomy and/or territorial sovereignty
• Nationalism generates tensions
• Set of ideas around the nation, understood as a political practice e as generator of the political goal in its end, loyalty, national loyalty (Lois, 2015, p. 49)
• Nationalism also refers to political practice developed from this set of ideas, like socio-political mobilization that produces not only discourses but symbols, language, cultural representation of a national identification.
• Idea of nationalist conflict substituting class conflict.
• Modern phenomena, resulting from the link between culture and territory, fundamental to the economical, political and social processes .

Question 14

Nation- states

Answer 14

• Earliest modern nation states England emerged as the first nation state on 1 May 1707.
  • France followed after the French revolution of 1789 when it became a Republic on 21 September, 1791.
  • The idea of nation states spread to other parts of Europe. This saw the unification of Italy and Germany into powerful states in the 19 th century.