INTST101 : Unit_01_Lecture_Notes.pdf

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The main goal of this course is to provide you with a fundamental, comprehensive literacy regarding the main concepts and trends in international studies. Important things and events which happen between nations (hence inter-national ). International means between nations , or maybe more precisely, between countries. a nation is a group which thinks of itself as a unique and separate people. Different nations arose in europe groups with these common attributes and they came to dominate political and social and economic life, and the trend spread out from there across the globe. A major drive and focus of nationalism has been national groups each seeking their own state. Since i"ve been using the sociologist max weber"s definition of the nation, let"s get his say on the state. A state is simply the government which organizes the life of a people in a given territory. All together, a state and its nation and its territory form a country, like.