POL S101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: A Secret, Jean Bodin, Humanitarian Intervention

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL S101
• Professor: Greg Anderson

Document Summary

Global : typically used to refer to the entire world, tends to erase boundaries, allows for a larger sense of community (cosmopolitanism) and larger ethical order, globalization emphasizes interconnectedness across state boundaries. 15: political communities recognizable as states have been around since the beginnings of agriculture, relationship to the land, a way of organizing people and resources, some form of protection. Early states cont"d: in western thought, historical focus was on the cradle of western civilization ogreek and roman civilizations oneither of these was isolated, but existed in a broader context of relations with other civilizations. The roman empire: best-known empire of the ancient world, central in the development of republicanism, origin of the main legal systems in europe, linked to the predominance of christianity in europe. Empire: various forms throughout history, large-scale political entities made up of smaller political groups (often states) under control of a central power, characterized by explicit relations of dominance and subordination.