01:790:102 : irstudyguide1.doc
30 Oct 2014
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State-must meet the following criteria in order to be considered a state. Strong states do not necessarily imply strong powers--> strong states with a high level of empirical statehood and weak quasi states which have formal sovereignty but very little statehood. People often expect states to uphold certain key values: security, freedom, order, justice and welfare. Nation-a group of people with a common identity; nation and state are not interchangeable. Nation-state-boundaries are the same as the ethnic group. Military, wealth: latent-exists but isnt being used; like kinetic versus potential energy, hard-tangible good; military, population, gdp, resources, land, soft-ideational; making someone do something you want; influence states are competing rivals and periodically go to war with eachother. Security-assumption that relationsof states can be best characterized as a world in which armed. Anarchy- the international system is an ~; there is no worldwide government. Failed state- does not meet state criteria; i. e. boundaries, monopoly of political violence.
