POLI 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Minority Rights
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Westphalian model: the international system is a universe composed of sovereign states, each with exclusive authority within its own geographic boundaries. Purpose of article is to explain that this is not the case for all entities called states. It marginalizes situations in which actors and institutions have not acted autonomously: rulers have had to take into account other issues such as: Democracy: westphalian state is a system of political authority based on territory and autonomy. Territoriality- political authority is exercised over a geographic area instead of a group of people. Autonomy- no external actors have authority within the state"s borders. Territorial violations in this model involve institutions without geographic borders. Compromises in westphalia have occurred in four ways: conventions. Rulers enter into agreements, such as human rights accords, in which they expect some gain, but their behavior is not contingent on what others do. They expose their policy to outside scrutiny of their own domestic practices: contracting.
