POLB80H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Stephen D. Krasner, Toleration, Hedley Bull
6 Sep 2013
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36 empires loosely or tightly organized, more or less centred and relatively formal or informal. International systems organized on basis of the independence of individual units or their sovereignty. International society applied to historical narrative and theoretical perspective. European state system principles are sovereignty and non-internvention. Made family of nations" to protect sovereignty. Theoretical perspective known as the english school came from hedley bull, states accept no higher power than themselves, anarchy (no government) Christian society (history) justify european seizure of land from indigenous people. Standard of civilization 19 century imperialism and unequal treatment of nations. 37 human agency always played key role in determining rules, norms, institutions. Contemporary international society norms, rules, established practices, institutions governing the relations among sovereign states, exercise juridical independence. Sovereign equality: the equal status in international law of all states that characterizes early. Islam, medieval europe, supranational religious authority coexisted uneasy relationship.
