POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Extraterritoriality, Jean Bodin, Feudalism

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 110
• Professor: Kim Richard Nossal

Document Summary

Changes: religious changes, economic changes, military changes, cosmological/ intellectual/ ideational changes greek and roman ideas about the world. Changes were interrelated interacting with one another to produce, over time, a radical shift in beliefs and practices. Domestic wars in the 16th century catholics vs. protestants. International wars in the 17th century fought over ideational, intellectual and religious beliefs, and they were exceedingly destructive. Jean bodin (1530-1596) and the notion of sovereignty (1576: majesty [i. e. , sovereignty] is supreme and legally unbound power over citizens and subject peoples. Thirty years war: from the defenestration of prague (may 1618) to the peace of. Peace of westphalia: recognized sovereignty of princess in holy roman empire, recognized sovereignty of switzerland and united provinces of the. Netherlands: institutionalized the idea that rulers should be supreme in their own domain. Sovereignty as the organizing principle of world politics. Sovereignty involves the right to exercise supreme political authority within one"s territory.