SOCSCI 032 Global Interstate Flashcards

1
Q

The interstate system have been organized
around the principles of what?

A

state sovereignty, territoriality, and interference.

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2
Q

This is an organization with an international membership,
scope, or presence.

A

International organization

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3
Q

What are the Principles of the Contemporary Interstate System

A

Sovereignty
Territoriality
Non-Interference

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4
Q

Where was Sovereignty derived from?

A

Derived from the Latin term superanus through the French
term souveraineté,
Originally meant to be the equivalent of supreme power.

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5
Q

Is a term associated with non verbal
communication that refers to how people
use space to communicate ownership or occupancy of
areas and possessions.

A

Territoriality

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6
Q

Is the act of or something that obstructs or hinders.

A

Interference

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7
Q

In the 30 year war the peace was negotiated, from 1644, in the
Westphalian towns of?

A

Münster and Osnabrück.

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8
Q

This is a region in northwestern
Germany and one of the three historic parts of the
state of ___________.

A

Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia.

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9
Q

Three treaties were signed to end each of the
overlapping wars:

A

Peace of Münster, the Treaty of Münster, and the Treaty of Osnabrück.

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10
Q

This recognized the sovereign rights of the state and became the basis for the Westphalian international system (i.e. modern
interstate system)

A

Westphalian Treaty
of 1648

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11
Q

What were the factors that resulted in the current interstate
system?

A

capital and coercion, that is: wealth (resources), and
means to launch wars

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12
Q

Who said “The state makes wars, and war makes the state.”

A

Charles Tilly

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12
Q

What were the 5 principles in politics?

A
  1. The principle of state sovereignty.
  2. The principle of legal (equality)of
    states.
  3. The principle of non-intervention of
    one states in international affairs of
    another.
  4. International law and diplomacy .
  5. Reason of state replaced religion.
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13
Q

What was the Westphalian System?

A

Known as ‘Original Territorial Basis of Modern Interstate
System’

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13
Q

This was based on feudal, hierarchy system and also ended the hegemony of Habsburg Empire

A

Anti-Hegemonic System

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14
Q

What was Article 2(1) of the United Nations Charter.

A

The organization is based on the principle of
sovereign equality of all its members.

15
Q

What was Article 2(7) of the United Nations Charter.

A

Nothing contained in the present charter shall
authorize the United Nations to intervene in matters
which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of
any state or shall require the members to submit such
matters to settlement under the present charter.

15
Q

According to this person, the Treaty of Westphalia created
an opening for nation states to have a new kind of
conversation with each other, one where agreements
could be made and power could be exchanged in a
logical and rational way.

A

Jaclyn Hawtin

15
Q

What are IGO’s?
What are OECD’s

A

Intergovernmental Organizations
The Organizations of Economy of Corporations and
Development

16
Q

What did the treaty of Westphalia create?

A

State System

16
Q

How has the nature of sovereignty changed over the times?

A

from one which vests states with certain rights, like the right to non-intervention, to one which grants them certain responsibilities
primarily towards its own population.