POL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Jus Sanguinis, Ethnic Nationalism, Civic Nationalism
8 May 2018
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POL 100- SFU
LECTURE 2-CHAPTER 2- NATIONALISM AND THE STATE
• State:
- A state is an independent, permanent and self-governing political system in which the
governing institution have the ability to make and implement rules for the political
community in its own territory.
-Also, a state has its own sovereignty and it’s where concentration of power is held.
-A state is permanent and it has monopoly of legitimate use of physical force over
certain areas of its territory.
• Government:
- Government is just a temporarily set of institutions that are able to make decisions and
implement laws for the state.
-In another word, it just acts as an agent or a caretaker of the institutions for the state
-A government can only stay be in power for a certain period of time, and the
government system will change, so it is not permanent.
• Sovereignty:
-Sovereignty is a principle that emphasizes the facts that states are highest authority of
their territory and population and states are independent enough to not be influenced
by any external authorities.
• Failed state:
- A failed state happened when a state is not able to enforce and follow the law and
maintain the orders
-As well, the state a’t afford to protect the lives of the citizens and provide the basic
needs for their citizens.
-In particularly, failed states or shattered states are often caused by civil wars, extreme
corruption, uncontrolled violence, and economic collapse.
EX: Somalia in East of Africa became a failed state because of the lack of effective
government in 1991.
• Capacity Autonomy:
- Capacity and Autonomy are ways to measure the differences in terms of strength
among different states in the world. It is also a good way to examine the level of
sovereignty of the states.
-States always drive to have high capacity and autonomy.
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