POL 2103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Territorial Entity, Civil Society
5 Jun 2018
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Department
Course
Professor
State and Non-Sate Actors in the International/Global System
Some key questions
· What is IR?
· How has globalization impacted the study o IR?
Change & the International System
· How & why has the IN system evolved
· What role has globalization played?
· Is the IN system changing in form and nature (a global system)?
· Or are changes less fundamental in nature and simply a matter of intensity
and scope?
Definitions
· State
o A territorial entity controlled by a gov. and inhabited by a
population
o Exercises sovereignty over its territory and recognized by other
states and the UN
· Civil society
o Population of a state within political and social institutions
· International system
o Set of relationships among the world’s states that is structured by
certain rules and patterns of interaction
o These rules can be explicit or implicit, and include definitions of
memberships, rights and responsibilities of members as well as
relations between members
· Nation state
o State whose population shares a sense of national identity, usually
including a language and culture
Levels of Analysis
· An approach to explaining events and issues in IR that categorize sources of
influence into at least 4 levels of actors/processes
· No best level- instead it suggests multiple explanations and approaches, the
need to go beyond superficial aspects to consider broader causes
· The higher the level the slower processes then to influence outcomes
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Document Summary
State and non-sate actors in the international/global system. How & why has the in system evolved. State: a territorial entity controlled by a gov. and inhabited by a population, exercises sovereignty over its territory and recognized by other states and the un. Civil society: population of a state within political and social institutions. Nation state: state whose population shares a sense of national identity, usually including a language and culture. An approach to explaining events and issues in ir that categorize sources of influence into at least 4 levels of actors/processes. No best level- instead it suggests multiple explanations and approaches, the need to go beyond superficial aspects to consider broader causes. The higher the level the slower processes then to influence outcomes. Temporary peace or a more fundamental shift in the system. Conflicts still occur, notably when a state perceives a power vacuum due to superpower weakness or decline: ussr 1979 invasion of afghanistan, iraq 1990 invasion of kuwait.
