POLS 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Iraq War, Ulama, Gulf War
22 Dec 2016
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Scholars point to the fact that many states of the global south are weak and that this has a significant impact on international relations and on neo-realism. Government: a modern state has a centralized system of democratic rule, based on administrative policing, and military organizations, sanctioned by a legal order, claiming a monopoly on the legitimate use of force, within a defined territory. Economy: a segregated and self-sustained national economy that comprises the necessary sectors for its reproduction and growth. The major part of economic activity takes place within independent countries. There is an absence of effective and responsive state institutions. Leaders more concerned with securing their own grip on power rather than creating strong state institutions. Strong patron-client networks as opposed to strong institutions. State is unable to provide needs for citizens, so citizens turn elsewhere, such as to tribes or religious sects for material and non-material needs: develop diverse identities.
