The Global Interstate System

Question 1

a territorially bounded sovereign polity that is ruled in the name of a community of citizens who identify themselves as a nation.

Answer 1

Nation-State
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Question 2

Nation–states: territorial organizations characterized by the monopolization of
legitimate violence

Answer 2

qua states

Question 3

Nation–states: membership associations with a collective identity and a
democratic pretension to rule

Answer 3

qua nation

Question 4

The belief that globalization imposes a FORCED CHOICE upon states either to conform to free market principles or run the risk of being left behind

Answer 4

Golden straitjacket

Question 5

Illustrate the forcing of states into policies that suit the preferences of investment
houses and corporate executives (Electronic Herd-live nervous system of the world’s
capital markets such as New York, London, Paris, Hong Kong) who swiftly move
money and resources into countries favored as adaptable to the demands of
international business and withdraw even more rapidly from countries deemed
uncompetitive.

Answer 5

Golden straitjacket

Question 6

Illustrate the forcing of states into policies that suit the preferences of investment houses and corporate executives (Electronic Herd-live nervous system of the four world’s capital markets such as _______) who swiftly move money and resources into countries favored as adaptable to the demands of international business and withdraw even more rapidly from countries deemed uncompetitive.

Answer 6

New York, London, Paris, Hong Kong

Question 7

Countries are compared to __________ ____ where the states and their government are rewarded and punished similar to buying and selling shares of individual companies.

Answer 7

individual stocks

Question 8

States also have lost an important element of ___________________ and that neo liberalism is beyond contestation

Answer 8

economic sovereignty

Question 9

two things that will happen if a country is in Golden Straitjacket:

Answer 9

the economy grows and politics shrinks.

Question 10

It is a straitjacket because it narrows the _________ and _________________ of those in power to relatively tight parameters.

Answer 10

political and economic policy choices

Question 11

A contemporary economic ideology that emphasizes the value of FREE market competition and is most commonly associated with LAISSEZ-FAIRE.

Answer 11

Neoliberalism

Question 12

used to refer to market-oriented reform policies such as: eliminating price controls, deregulating capital markets, lowering trade barriers, and reducing, especially through privatization, state influence in the economy.

Answer 12

Neoliberalism

Question 13

The power of the national governments to make decisions independently from those made by other governments.

Answer 13

Economic Sovereignty

Question 13

Globalization as an increase in the international integration of markets for goods, services, capital and labor, is also a ____________ of national sovereignty.

Answer 13

counterpoint

Question 14

Four Different Concepts of Sovereignty

Answer 14

International Legal Sovereignty
Westphalian Sovereignty
Interdependence Sovereignty
Domestic Sovereignty

Question 15

refers to the acceptance of a given state as a member of the international community

Answer 15

International Legal Sovereignty

Question 16

is based on the principle that one sovereign state should not interfere in the domestic arrangements of another.

Answer 16

Westphalian Sovereignty

Question 17

is the capacity and willingness to control flows of people, goods and capital into and out of the country.

Answer 17

Interdependence Sovereignty

Question 18

is the capacity of a state to choose and implement policies within the territory.

Answer 18

Domestic Sovereignty

Question 19

The increase of the number of international organizations and the expansion of their functions have undeniably unrestricted an individual country’s sovereignty to certain extent. (T or F)

Answer 19

False (restricted)

Question 20

The most typical example is the increasingly extensive involvement of the world’s three leading financial institutions:

Answer 20

The World Bank, the International Momentary Fund (IMF) and the World Trade Organization (WTO)

Question 21

Many underdeveloped nations that resorted to foreign assistance and interventions resulted to the ____________ of government as regard control of their economy due to the disorderly domestic economic establishments.

Answer 21

deprivation

Question 22

some of the world’s leading economic entities, such as the United States, the European Union and Japan, by taking advantage of their predominant economic status, are _________ or infringing upon other countries’ economic sovereignty.

Answer 22

affecting

Question 23

While countries inevitably cede some control over their economic sovereignty to external actors, it is the “________ _____” of sovereign states which still dictates the terms and tenets of globalization.

Answer 23

structural power

Question 24

is the process of industrial, political, legal, economic, social, and cultural integration of states wholly or partially in Europe and has primarily come about through the European Union and its policies.

Answer 24

European integration

Question 25

, is an international organization comprising 27 European countries (United Kingdom has left EU last January 2020) and governing common economic, social, and security policies.

Answer 25

European Union (EU)

Question 26

(EU), is an international organization comprising ___ __________________ (United Kingdom has left EU last January 2020) and governing common economic, social, and security policies.

Answer 26

27 European countries

Question 27

can be defined as group of people who are bound together into a single
body, through history, customs, value, language, culture, tradition, art and religion.

Answer 27

Nation

Question 28

can be defined as a patch of land with a sovereign government.

Answer 28

state