POL_S 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Groupthink, World Trade Organization, Universal Postal Union
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Nation: a group of people with a shared identity and culture. State: a political unit with a defined territorial area. Why the increase: decolonization, multinational states fragmenting breakup of yugoslavia. Legal requirements: defined territory, permanent population, sovereign government, capacity for foreign relations. For all practical purposes: recognition by other states. Candidates: palestine, turkish cyprus, somaliland, kurdistan, puerto. Power: ability to get someone to do something they would not. Debate between realism and liberalism: relative or absolute power. Correlates of war project: composite index of national capabilities: iron and steel production, military expenditures, military personnel, energy consumption, total population, urban population. Aggregate score is proportion of total power in world a state holds. Cinc scores of major powers (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Gross domestic product (gdp): total value of goods and services produced within a state (cid:1) Gdp per capita (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Resolve: one reason for gap between capabilities and power.
