POSC 020 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, Mutual Assured Destruction, Cuban Missile Crisis

• School: UC Riverside
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POSC 020
• Professor: Bordenkircher E

Document Summary

Possible ids (write on 10, 14 will appear, provide example, historical context, definition and significance, 5 points each for 50 total) Sovereignty: exclusive political authority over a defined territory and the people within it. Weak/failing nation-state: the inability of a nation-state to continually provide the delivering political (public) goods (i. e security, basic utilities like electricity, water, phone services) to its citizens living within its designated borders. Inability to coerce all its citizens living within its borders: example: afghanistan, war ripped through it, struggle for authority through different militias, unorganized and unable to provide. Failed states: states whose governments no longer wield control over their territory or no longer have a monopoly on the use of power. A failed state cannot provide any of the aforementioned goods/services: somalia presence of international actors. Structure: the ordering of units, usually states, within the system, usually on the basis of relative power, economic strength or class: ex: structure of anarchy.