INST 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: International Refugee Organization, Nationstates, Turkification
8 May 2019
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The european catastrophe: war, refugees, and the rise of. Human community that has the monopoly on the legitimate use of violence in a given region. Sovereign- nothing is above it, it commands itself (self-governs. Nationalism: the doctrine or idea that a distinctive people should have their own state, or that the state should better address the needs of a distinctive people. Michael hechter: collective action that strives to make the boundaries of the governing unit congruent with the ethnic unit. Anderson: the nation is "an imagined political community--and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign" Mass extermination of minorities: massive population transfer. Jewish and other minority populations that survived war "voluntarily" leaving for safer locations. After wwi, populations stay in place and borders change. After wwii, borders stay in place and populations transfer. With a few exceptions, europe"s nation-states end the war more homogenous than they were before the war. Rise of contemporary institutions that still define international humanitarianism.
