Political Science 1020E Lecture 12: Key Concepts in International Relations
17 Apr 2018
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Actor: any person or body whose decisions and subsequent actions have repercussions for international politics: obama, toyota, nato, eu, amnesty (ngo), walmart, us army (agents of. The state: compulsory association claiming control over a territory and the people within it. Acts as the institutional system of political domination and has a monopoly on the legitimate use of force: sovereignty, territoriality, monopoly on legitimate use of force, population. Nation-state: nation: a community of people sharing a common ethnic and or national identity: nation-state: where state and national community combine. Sovereignty: supreme political power of the state: power to make laws. Territoriality: puchala: territoriality denotes a geographic perimeter or unit. , becomes controversial when there are competing claims to territory. Order and the society of states: a measure of the peacefulness and regularity of interactions on the one hand and the capability for maintaining that peacefulness and regularity on the other.
