POLS 2950 Midterm: 2950 midterm study prep
17 Dec 2015
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Coercion: forceful idea of making people compel to orders. Russia: communist, coercion based, took from population. Thesis: state building within holland and russia had differentiated through the use of each individual political structure as well as the means in which the separate entities used their citizens. Political structure: russia: communist, coercion, government in control of people/capital: holland: democratic, capital, commonality for all to boost economy. Russia: took from citizens through coercion, army stable by capital received from citizens. Holland: implemented working laws, job opportunities, trading (sea), State of nature: is a state of war until civil society created, power needed to enforce the new society, resources fought over. Us going into afghanistan for oil, using force. Thesis - the state of nature implies that all humans have a natural thirst for power, which may destroy all means of peace in society. Hobbes states that humans must collectively establish a government as well as created a contract of peace.
