Economics 1021A/B Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Maastricht Treaty, Statism, Nationstates

• School: Western University
• Department: Economics
• Course: Economics 1021A/B
• Professor: bruce hammond

Document Summary

Weber"s definition of state: an entity with sovereign authority over a specific territory . Sovereign authority implies maintaining internal order and prevent foreign aggression. The authority of the modern state is rational-legal constrains the power of elites. Michael mann makes a distinction between despotic power and infrastructural power. Sovereign nation-states are characterized by the ability to act with infrastructural power. Modern states do not rely on power over society put power through society . Many kinds of political units throughout history, nowadays the world is almost entirely composed of sovereign nation-states. Fascism was so closely associated with nationalism and statism thus giving the state- centered phenomena a bad name. In the 1970s the state was brought back in . The collapse of state socialism delegitimized the central control of the state in the economy. Maastricht treaty brought what is now known as the eu. Nation- and state-building are sometimes so powerful that they result in war and ethnic cleansing.