POL 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: John Stuart Mill, Bourgeoisie
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Territory: includes the surface area and beneath to the core of the earth, twelve miles of adjacent sea and the airspace above the land and territorial sea. Sovereignty: ability to make decisions without interference from external actors independent from foreign country or influence. The people are their own master and their rulers are acceptable to them. International recognition: formal declaration from other states that an entity is a state. Weber: "human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of violence within a given territory. " Military establishment that successfully monopolizes the legitimate use of violen. Financial and tax collection apparatus that provides the wherewithal to support t administration and the military. Political organizations exist outside this framework ie. violence is controlled by tribes, lack of bureaucratic institutions. Powerful social organizations (tribes, clans, sects, patron-client dyads) fight again the state-building social control. Maintain sense of spiritual guidance that affect behaviour. Cultural homogeneity: population divided into linguistic groups, unable to.