CPO-2002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Extortion, Social Contract, Political Geography
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-state tenets: a given territory, use or force or threat of force to control its citizens. -nation: group of people who share a common identity. -nation-state: a state in which a single nation predominates. -states with multiple nations: u. s. and bolivia (indigenous people) -states are coercive, but it is never perfectly monopolized, nor do they always enforce it in the same way or at all. -failed states: states cannot coerce or control the citizens of a given territory. ~social contract is an agreement among individuals to create and empower the state. ~states will enforce punishments on rule breakers and protect everyone. ~based on works of john locke and thomas hobbes. Ho(cid:271)(cid:271)es (cid:272)alled this the (cid:862)state of (cid:374)ature,(cid:863) (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h he des(cid:272)ri(cid:271)es as life of (cid:862)(cid:449)ar of e(cid:448)ery (cid:373)a(cid:374) agai(cid:374)st e(cid:448)ery (cid:373)a(cid:374). (cid:863) ~citizens can always attack each other; will always be vulnerable. -state of nature dilemma is carried out using a normal form game, where players move simultaneously.
