POLI 2F20 Lecture Notes - International Relations, United Nations Economic And Social Council, Linguistic System
13 Nov 2013
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An historical process involving a fundamental shift or transformation in the spatial scale of human social organization that links distant communities and expands the reach of power relations across regions and continents. State government that is the supreme authority within its territorial boarders. No other state/entity can legitimately interfere in its internal affairs. Also points for mentioning its historical and/or european roots (peace of westphalia, 1648) A situation in which one state is powerful enough to maintain the essential rules governing interstate relations and willing to do so . A structure of values and understanding about the nature of order that permeates a whole system of states and non-state entities. [these values] appear to most actors as the natural order . A state"s dominance is not sufficient to create hegemony critical theory (cox) A linguistic system that orders statements and concepts also points for: mentioning how language involves power relations, links to post structuralism/poststructural analysis.
