POLI 2403 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Westphalian Sovereignty, Amphictyonic League, Rational Agent
28 May 2017
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Week 8 on syllabus will switch with spring break. Interdependence sovereignty: actual control that a state has over movement of goods and people across their boundaries- dependent on state they"re being moved to and neighboring states. International institutions: broader term, includes igos and many others, such as mncs and. Intergovernmental organizations are all those institutions created by states. Nation, state, country: nation: not necessarily a state or country; refers to a group of people sharing a common culture or ethnicity, cultural/ethnic. State and country can be used synonymously: geopolitical construct, nation states: state composed of a single nation. Actor: any entity that has agency at the international level. Ingos (international ngos: mncs, may be included: networks. Major groups (1991: created in the process that led up to the rio earth summit. Step forward with this- integrated civil society into international negotiations, but impact is still very limited.
