ADJUS-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Riga, Moral Authority, Cath Database
25 Jul 2020
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Overview, history of international relations & diplomacy, until 1919. Many civil wars and power struggles, power relations. State: is not nation; refers to territory & sovereignty exercised in and over that particular territory. Nation: refers to people (yet: a wide & confusing variety of definitions exists) Feudalism: overlapping powers, plurality of charlemagne could only have power, as long others allowed him to do so. Schulze: states did not rise from plans. No state: in ad 1000; feudal fragmentation, competing universal claims: empire and. Feudalism 800-1200: origins in carolingian europe; vassals with fiefs; vassal has to support overlord political and military; reciprocity of obligations and duties (feudal contract); personal bonds; no top-down structure; feudalism: as balance of power; Trust based on power relations: successful king has authority; weak king not; f. as an answer to the political situation after the fall of the roman empire, which caused a complete fragmentation of europe in 9th/10th century.
