POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Refugees International, Napoleonic Wars, Great Power
30 Aug 2016
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Four international systems: 1763 treaty of paris, 1815 peace, interwar period, postwar/coldwar. Function of a state is the act as final authority of disputes (monopoly over legitimate use of violence) Executive, legislative, judiciary and the army, bureaucracy (unelected portion of the state ensures every existing policy and function within a particular country is implemented, is respected. Legislature members of the elected assembly that vote on/adopt laws. Rules/amends/passes it and makes it into a law in theory. Executive one that carries out the law. Body that decides on the laws and the direction of the state. States can be republican, constitutional monarchy, secular, and religious theocratic. International sys contact relationships between states and the rules that govern that. Stakes jean-jacques says that human nature is a positive one, man is ever born free. Thomas hobbs humans are naturally conflictual, violent, rapacious, envious, prone to violence, an absence of a state, life will be solitary, brutal, nasty, and short.
