PSCI 110 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Rwandan Genocide, Ethnic Conflict

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PSCI 110
• Professor: Jingjing Huo

Document Summary

Discussion and review #1: the state and identities: explain state, regime, government. State: has a monopoly of violence over a given territory, must be only source of security and order over the given territory and is highly stable, can only be destroyed through territorial disintegration, inability to provide security and order. Must have ability to transform abstract ideas into policies on the ground. Is evaluated based on its power to carry out policies, provide services to citizens. Sovereignty: the ability to implement policies without outside interference. Regime: long-term fundamental norms and objectives of how society should be governed, rights and responsibilities of citizens, power or function of the state. Constitution is most direct embodiment of the regime. Government: designing short-term policies with respect to the regime that will be implemented through the state bureaucracy. Through military and economic competition and through military conquest.