01:790:103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Civilizing Mission, Statism, Comparative Politics

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: 01:790:103
• Professor: Barea Sinno

Document Summary

Territory- an area with clearly defined borders to which a state lays a claim state must have territory size of modern states varies. Numbers of states and borders change quickly. Borders change and the creation of new states are an attempt to make states coincide closely with nations groups who share the same identity. External and internal sovereignty- sovereignty relative to outside powers. External sovereignty: sovereignty relative to outside powers that is legally recognized in international law cannot be overly dependent on another power if they lack sovereignty that are not truly a modern state. Legitimacy- the recognized right to rule two sides: the claims that states and others make about why they have the right to rule, the empirical fact of whether their populations accept or at least tolerate this claimed right. Most legitimate authority is a combination of all three types of legitimacy. National identity can be a powerful source.