POL208Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Fungibility, Peer Pressure, Occupy Movement
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But we don"t question who is making these power judgments evaluation of power. This does not mean that state power is dominant. Ngo"s sometimes achieve more than states themselves: msf (medicins sans frontiers): e-bola ngo invented a medical protocol where states were unable to do so. Corporations walmart for example: economic power, but not all powerful in determining where it wants to go and who to employ. The state is a human community that successfully claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory max weber 1919. Legitimacy allows them to use physical force = allowed to coerce and use violence. Mutually recognized identity other states have to acknowledge that you exist. Un member states: 193 (but this number is contingent depending on the perspective you take) States have power in form of legitimacy and force* In ir, states are sovereign by definition: all other actors are governed by someone else.
