POL S101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Civic Nationalism, Ethnic Nationalism, International Relations

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL S101
• Professor: Janet Phillips

Document Summary

Shift in focus from politics within the state (comparative politics) to politics between states. Focus on states and international systems (how states relate to each other) Tries to understand causation and generalizability of relations (patterns of behaviour and relationships) Has moved beyond the state: stateless and globalized forces (capital, social movements, regimes) 1933 montevideo convention of statehood: article 4, article 8: I(cid:374) theor(cid:455), (cid:858)states are jurisdically equal, enjoy the same rights, and have equal capacit(cid:455) i(cid:374) their e(cid:454)ercise(cid:859) but not in reality (cid:858)no state has the right to i(cid:374)terve(cid:374)e i(cid:374) the i(cid:374)ter(cid:374)al or e(cid:454)ter(cid:374)al affairs of a(cid:374)other(cid:859) Codification of the convention used to recognize a state. A state is: a permanent population, a defined territory, government, capacity to enter into relations with other states. Does not require that one particular state be recognized by other states (ex: kosovo, Ultimately, what is and what is not a state is political and consequences that come out of recognizing a particular state.