POSC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nationstates, Phalia, Jean Bodin
24 Oct 2016
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A number of treaties (an agreement between two sovereign states) in west phalia, the states decided that what happened within a territory and the population within it was responsible for ruling it. They agreed not to intervene in the affairs of other states. It is developed by a frenchman named jean. They are legally equal, but will be constrained by their size, power, audacity, so that states which are bigger have less ??? to mess with other states. A (cid:374)e(cid:449) do(cid:272)t(cid:396)i(cid:374)e de(cid:448)eloped (cid:272)alled (cid:862)the (cid:396)espo(cid:374)si(cid:271)ility to i(cid:374)te(cid:396)(cid:448)e(cid:374)e. (cid:863) a state is o(cid:374)ly so(cid:448)e(cid:396)eig(cid:374) as lo(cid:374)g as the go(cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t is a(cid:271)le to p(cid:396)ote(cid:272)t a(cid:374)d respect the population in their state. If a government becomes an oppressor of its state, the international community has a responsibility to intervene. A state in which the government is no longer able to enforce rules over the population and the territory, or the population is fighting against the government.
