POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: International Inequality, Mutual Assured Destruction, Ottoman Empire
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Function: act as the nal authority in disputes (monopoly over legitimate use of violence within a de ned territory) Structure: executive, legislature, bureaucracy (implementation of laws and policies), judiciary, and army. Stakes (of international system): depends on one"s view of human nature: Rousseau: people establish communities for freedom, cultural progression, etc. Hobbes: absence of a state, life is violent. International relations: reward good behaviour, punish bad behaviour. Treaties: binding agreements between two or more states. 1763 treaty of paris (first international system): Naked realism: states did what they wanted and the outcomes were zero-sum. Depended on britain and russia being aligned and austria and france being aligned. Once those great powers were in con ict, the system broke down. 1815: congress of vienna (end of napoleonic wars): aim at creating a series of states of relatively equal power, thus avoiding war. German problem: german nationalists wanted a united german nation. Germany became the most powerful country in europe.
