INTS10001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Billiard Ball, Coruscant, Rulemaking
13 Aug 2020
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2 hr exam (35%) during examination period. States have not always existed - early human communities were small and structured as hunter-gatherer bands, without institutionalized hierarchy that characterizes formal states. Hgb interacted, exchanged, fought with each other. No surplus = no enduring political institutions. Development of settled communities, populations growth, and first states". International politics was, for millennia, driven by the complex and interconnected relationships between nomads and empires. Nomads: pastoral farmers that did not have fixed territory. Exchanges and interactions at border zones; external relations generate internal development. Raids, and conquest of empires; empires then assimilate their new rulers while adding aspects of nomadic cultures. Early modern to modern international relations: the peace of westphalia, 1648. 1648 - treated as one of hte most significant historical dates in international. Held to define the mergence of the modern" system of states and sovereignty. Feudal europe - system of overlapping sovereignties.
