POL208Y1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Socalled, Deterritorialization, Brezhnev Doctrine
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Nation state: a political community in which the state claims legitimacy on the grounds that it represents the nation. The nation-state would exist if nearly all the members of a single nation were organized in a single state, without any other national communities being present. Although the term is widely used, no such entities exist. Globalization: a historical process involving a fundamental shift or transformation in the spatial scale of human social organization that links distant communities and expands the reach of power relations across regions and continents. It is also something of a catch-all phrase often used to describe a single world-economy after the collapse of communism, though sometimes employed to define the growing integration of the international capitalist system in the post-war period. Anarchy: a system operating in the absence of any central government. Does not imply chaos, but in realist theory the absence of political authority.
