INTBUS 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Force Play, Comparative Politics, Critical Thinking
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What is civil society? the pursuit of private economic interests and the expression of personal beliefs and values. (pursuit: verfolgung: 2. What is meant by sovereignty? the fact of holding ultimate authority over your territory and population. It recognises not other power but itself: 4. Military innovation confers an advantage to larger armies and fleets. They can only be afforded by rulers who marshal larger resources requires raising troops from larger populations tapping the wealth produced by larger territories: 5. How do states typically acquire the economic resources they use: critical thinking, 1. How can one explain the fact that members of a states population progressively acquired right vis a vis the state: 2. The state declared itself being bounded by his own law: 3. Rulers do come to oversee, control and to an extent manage social life at large in a more and more intense, continuous, systematic purposive and pervasive manner.