GEOG 2337 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Rump State, De Jure, Stateless Society
9 Feb 2020
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Spatiality of states: state a nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one government, modern state the state is recognized as a person by international law and other sovereign states (constitutive theory) Modern state declarative tests: politically organized territory, defined and recognized boundaries, administered by a sovereign government. Early forms of state: earliest forms of the state emerged whenever power could be centralized, associated with, agriculture/class structure, writing/information. In stateless societies there are: little concentration of authority, limited and non-permanent authority, disputes resolved through predefined rules, highly variable economy and culture. Treaties and events: treaty of westphalia (1648) international norms and systems. Leviathan (1651) central government to avoid chaos: french revolution (1789) power to the people, communist manifesto (1846) the state is an unjust capitalist construct. Challenges to the state: subnational internal, supranational external. Labour groups: religion, ethnonationalism, criminal networks and oligarchs, anarchists and libertarians, communication, freedom, governance, fragile or failed states.
