ECON-2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Berlin Wall, Mikhail Gorbachev, Cuban Missile Crisis
17 Sep 2016
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30 years war - catholics & protestants/france, protestants win. Autonomy (external legitimacy): you can do what you want. Authority (internal legitimacy): if you are within territory, then you have to subject to their authority, police force, laws. He attempted to establish a continent wide empire under french control thus threatening the sovereignty of other states. Congress of vienna: peace talks post-napoleonic wars between the. Great powers to establish a general system of order in europe that would avoid another major war. Rise of nationalism - particularly germany but also everywhere else. Liberalism: harsh versailles treaty after wwi led to rise of nazi party to germany, appeasement by allied powers emboldened nazi germany, regional aspirations by japan and italy led to axis powers. Considering the cold war, the cold war international system is considered by some to be the most stable system in history. States ordered based on principle of sovereignty.
