HIST 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nuremberg Trials, Appeasement
18 Nov 2016
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Enlightenment place individual in center, not king. Human rights: due process, no tyranny, democracy, freedom of speech, a value , a meaning cannot be empty rhetoric. Principles of 20th c international sys: self-determination: self rule, a nation have rights to create own rules for its own ppl, not controlled by outside force ex)eu made of each state with self-deter. , succession, independence. Organizing principles from wwi wilson"s 14 pts, nation states; issue of autonomy, distapling. Iraq -creation of imperialism: sovereignty: ability of a state to enforce and exert its policy and authority over its territories without challenges (external and internal); it measures self-deter. Problem: countries messes with each other"s" affairs all the time. Eu, un other supranational institutions: stability of international borders : Africa"s border cross cut through diverse ethnics. Iraq- multiethnic and southern shia, middle sunni, north. Arbitrary boundary, can give up: human rights: regardless of nationality, contentious and destaple principle, 20th century concept.
