POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Global Politics, International Inequality, Chris Clark (Historian)
Document Summary
International system: definitions, challenges instruments, europe, four international systems: 1763 treaty of paris, 1815 peace, interwar period, postwar. Set of rules, norms and practices that govern the relations between states. Recognizing state interest and policy but discourage violence. Partly depends on one"s view of human nature and political association. Rousseau- humans are enslaved by the state . Hobbs- in the absence of the state life would be solidary, brutal, poor and short. Conflict and violence is the normal state of affairs, peace is the aberration. War can be a natural reflex of states. Treaties only matter as long as they serve the interests of the state. The tools of statecraft are multiple and include: Origin of the state and the international state system; most thinking on the international system emerged from europe. End of violence- the international state system. The great conflict between the ottoman empire and europe. Depended on britain and russia and france and austria being aligned.
