INTS10001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Triangular Trade, World-Systems Theory, Joseph Schumpeter
13 Aug 2020
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After destructiveness of the thirty years war european states came to see need for ways to manage states relations to each other. 18th century sees continuing development of these practices. Institutional solutions: development of international law and custom; legitimacy; diplomacy (resident embassies); limited war (watson 1992) With no sovereign above them, and no hegemon to enforce agreements, pressure came from peers" - social sanction. Declaration of rights of man and of the citizen (1789) First in britain, then throughout atlantic region. Jean bodin, the six books of the commonwealth (1576) Sovereignty is absolute and perpetual, sovereign prince accountable only to god. The sovereign is an omnipotent, absolute ruler whose power is indivisible. Sobjects forego rights for security, but maintain duties and obligations. Jean jacque rousseau on the social contract (1762) [influenced french revolution] The king, then queen, executed in 1793. Revolutionaries sought to wipe away all trappings of the ancien regime.
