PS 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Kurds, Feudalism, The Possession

• School: University of Illinois
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PS 241
• Professor: Rundlett Ashlea

Document Summary

It would be difficult to nae four words more essential to global politics than are state, nation, nation-state and nationalism. But despite their centrality, all four terms are shrouded in ambiguity due to their imprecise, inconsistent, and often totally erroneous usage) state. Weber"s definition of the state: human community that successfully claims the monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory. Sovereignty: implies holding power and having the freedom to act, established in western europe by the treaty of westphalia that ended the thirty. In 1700, not yet a world of states: no sense of sovereignty, were colonies. Internal sovereignty: the possession of sufficient power and capacity to rule within a territory, developing countries have less internal sovereignty, also known as empirical statehood. External sovereignty: the recognition of a center of power as having the right to rule within a territory, also known as juridical statehood.