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The Global Interstate System Flashcards

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The authority of a state to govern
itself without outside interference.

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Sovereignty

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  • Key Features: Autonomy, Territorial Integrity, Political Independence
  • Importance in international relations: Basis of state legitimacy.
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Sovereignty

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  • Definition: A state in which the political entity (state) and the cultural entity (nation) coincide.
  • Examples: France, Japan
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Nation-States

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Role in international relations: Primary actors in the global interstate system

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Nation-State

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  • A relatively modern phenomenon in human history.
  • People identified units as small as their village/tribe or Christendom
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Country/Nation-State

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  • (Benedict Anderson) Imagined Community – but not made up, it allows connection with community(people)
    ▪ Limited, Has boundaries; Rights and responsibilities are mainly the privilege and concern of the citizens
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Nation

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▪ Strive to become states – national ideas to be recognized and accepted by the people
▪ Some communities seek autonomy within their mother state

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Nation

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Country and government
* Attributes:
1.It exercises authority over a specific population (citizens)
2.It governs specific authority
3.Has a structure of government
4.Has sovereignty over its territory: Internal and External
Authority

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State

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  • Nationalism facilitates state formation
    ▪ Nationalist movements allow the creation of nation-states
  • States become independent and sovereign because of nationalist sentiment
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The way that Nation and State are closely related

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Definition: The practice of conducting negotiations between states.

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Diplomacy

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2 types of diplomacy

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  • bilateral
  • multi-lateral
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3 tools of diplomacy

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  • treaties
  • agreements
  • diplomats
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Importance of _____ is to prevent conflicts, and fosters cooperation

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Diplomacy

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  • Definition: A set of rules and norms governing relations between states.
  • Sources: Treaties, Customs, Legal
    Precedents
  • Institutions: International Court of Justice (ICJ), International Criminal Court (ICC)
  • Role: Promotes peace and justice, resolves disputes
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International Law

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  • Power Types: Hard Power (Military, Economic), Soft Power (Cultural, Diplomatic)
  • Influence Mechanisms: Alliances, Sanctions, International Aid
  • Role: Determines a state’s ability to shape international outcomes.
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Power and Influence in the Interstate System

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  1. Origins: Treaty of Westphalia (1648)
  2. Evolution through major events
    (World Wars, Cold War)
  3. Rise of international organizations (UN, WTO)
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Historical Background [of Interstate System]

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2 impacts of WWI

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  • Collapse of empires
  • creation of New Nation-States
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Result of WWII

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Emergence of the US and USSR as Superpowers

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4 impact of Cold War II

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  • Bipolar World Order
  • Arms Race
  • Proxy Wars
  • Ideological Conflict
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  • Founded to promote peace, security, and cooperation
  • Involves almost all recognized countries
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United Nations (1945)

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  • Oversees international trade agreements
  • Aims to reduce trade barriers and resolve disputes
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World Trade Organization (WTO, 1995)

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  • Package of treaties that ended the 30 years European wars of religion (1618-1648)
  • European states – the Holy Roman Empire, Spain, France, Sweden and the Dutch Republic
  • agreed to respect one another’s territorial integrity
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Peace of Westphalia (Germany)

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  1. the principle of state sovereignty;
  2. the principle of legal equality of states; and
  3. the principle of non-intervention of one state in the internal affairs of another
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3 core points of the Westphalian Treaty

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  • Emperor of the French Empire Sought to spread the principles of the French Revolution across Europe (Napoleonic Wars, 1803-1815)
  • Napoleonic code: Forbade birth privileges, freedom of religion, meritocracy in government service Brief French hegemony over Europe
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Napoleon Bonaparte

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  • Sought to restore Europe to world before French Revolution and Napoleon
  • Alliances of Austria, Prussia, Russian Empire, United Kingdom agreed to maintain “balance of power”
  • would support each other if any revolutions broke out
  • helped nations unite whether they wanted to or not
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The Concert of Europe

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4 tenets of the Concert

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1) Return of the monarchy
2) Return of Christian values in Europe
3) Repudiation of the Napoleonic Code
4) Renewed peace in Europe through great power diplomacy

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system of heightened interaction between various sovereign states, particularly the desire for greater cooperation and unity among states and people

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Internationalism

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– coined the term “international” in 1780
* International law: law between states
“The end that a disinterested legislator upon international law would propose to himself would … be the greatest happiness of all nations take together.”

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Jeremy Bentham

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Law between states

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International Law

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– architect of Italian unification, ardent nationalist, and major critique of the Metternich system
* Nationalism and international cooperation complimented each other
* Cooperation among nationstates

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Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872)

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  • Nations were subject to the universal laws of God, which could be discovered through reason.
  • Principles include: self-determination, democratic government, collective security, international law, and a league of nations.
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Wilsonian Internationalism

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*Founded in the 1919 Paris Peace conference after WW1
*Maintain world peace through international arbitration
*Birth of task-specific international organizations like the WHO and the ILO (international civil service)

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League of Nations (1919 - 1946)

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  • “Workers of the world unite”
  • “The proletariat has no nation”
  • Marxist anti-nationalism: affinity to the nation retards the worker’s struggle
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Karl Marx. Socialist Internationalism

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*Organization of labor and socialist parties, mainly in Europe
*Achievements: 8-hour working day, International Women’s Day, May 1
*Its parties became major players in the electoral politics of Europe
*Collapsed in 1916 as its member parties supported the war efforts of their respective states

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The Socialist International (1889 - 1916)

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*Product of the Bolshevik victory in Russia
*Lenin’s tool to promote revolution
*Central body for all Communist Parties across the world
*Dissolved in 1943 to appease Allied Powers

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Communist International (Comintern), 1919 - 1943

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*Hitler saw both variants internationalism as an attack on the nation
*Fascists believed in the primacy of ethnic majorities
* Fascists believed in regional spheres of influence

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Facism

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  • Reflected the postwar balance of power
  • Security Council – to maintain peace and security
  • Permanent 5 have veto (vestiges of the Concert)
  • Took over the duties of the League
  • Grew larger than the league because of decolonization(2015, 193)
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United Nations

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  • Created to preserve peace after the war
  • Reinforced principles of sovereignty and non-intervention
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United Nations

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  • 29 countries participated
  • Established to combat colonialism and neocolonialism by either the US or the USSR
  • Birth of the non-aligned movement
  • A Mazinnian internationalism for decolonizing countries
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The Bandung Conference (1955)

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________ did not believe colonies were part of the same legal terrain

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Concert-era international lawyers

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  • Third world solidarity
  • Developing world, Global South,
  • Cementing the emphasis on national development against “neocolonial intervention.”
    *G22 and the anti-globalization movement
    Regionally-driven internationalism
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Legacies of Bandung

CWORLD (10 decks)

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