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1
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War is nothing but a continuation of politics by another means

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Von Clausewitz

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Humans are by their nature a political animal that need to regulate forms of association

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Aristotle

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3
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Pol is about power - de facto

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Heywood

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4
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Power is relational

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Lukes

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5
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Power is: decision making and thought control

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Dahl

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6
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Power through coercion and RSs

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Giddens

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7
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Today’s authority is the site of yesterday’s struggle for power

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Goodwin 2007

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8
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Authority is de jure - ^ legitimation, less necessity for force - thus respect the law

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Painter and Jeffrey

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9
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Imagined community of the nation state

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Anderson 1991

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10
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Charachteristics of the state:
Universal and cumpulsory jurisidiction, legal supremacy/sov, equal with other nation-states - ‘self-sov’ - X terra nulius

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Raphael

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11
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Official diplomat in Florence - dark pol arts

Wise leader holds to what is right when can be he knows how to do wrong when necess

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Machiavelli - Il Principe

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12
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Leaders take advice, provide direction, exercise power, seeks authority
Hist is hist of great men

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Thomas Carlyle

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13
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Bureaycracy - rational-administration machine

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McNeil

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14
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Bureaucracy:
^s ability of org elites of power
W’s theory of power and bureaucracy
Business managed on basis of written docs
Appointment and advancement on professional criteria

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Weber 1971

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15
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Power-Bloc Model
Bureaucracy linked to devel of industrial and capitalist society
Civil servants and bureaucrats ^ powerful
Dictatorship of proletariat’d become dictatorship of the official

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Weber 1991

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16
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Sov is not a magical commodity locked in a vault in Westminster

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Leon Brittan in Elden 2006

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17
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Absolute sov - no power above

Unlimited, undivided e.g. can’t be split between relig and pol

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Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan 1660

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18
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Sov isn’t like virginity

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Howe 1994

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19
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Sov linked to territory - before more linked to people

Sov is a local level localized decisional level

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Gottfried Liebniz 1690

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20
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Banality of evil
Inherently obedient to authority - can act inhumanely due to blind obedience
RSP between social conventions and situations
Obedience necess for soc functioning - auth
But if responsib in worng hands… danger

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Migram’s 1974 Experiment

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21
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Power excercised not possessed
Power isn’t centralised or located in one place - someone having power isn’t essential
It’s who’s using it

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Foucault 1977

22
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State = human comm which within a certain area of territory has a successful monopoly of legitimate physical violence

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Weber 1968

23
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As ascribe power to something or someone means we can identify its location

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Allen

24
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Territory becomes the socio-spatial strategy of power - creating boundaries that contain society and unified concept of ‘nat power’

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Mortgenhau

25
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Recent years, Territory, the dom spatial concept of power been dislocated due to GBS and capitalism - boundary porosity
Due to huge dom of contemp internat instits that strategically cor-ord nationsq

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Painter

26
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EU’s progressive framing of a common defence policy similar to:

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Nato - Article 51, of UN Charter

27
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Any state can apply to be a member of EU - have to accept EU’s values though

  1. Stability in instits, demo, HR
  2. Market econ
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Copenhagen Criteria

28
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Terrorism Article of EU:
Stressing territory: surpranat auth that includes all Ts
Shall act jointly in spririt of solidarity
Union shall mobilise all instruments at its disposal

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TSM - Article 1-42

29
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Cartesian cartographics - pol implications

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Descartes 17th C

30
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Map making - satellite coordinates

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Cassini family

31
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Capitalism and end of fuedalism - importance of priv property - growth of new towns and cities
IDS - shift of power to MC
Importance of nat markets rather than local ones
Centralization of state selling capacity to labour - Marx

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Locke 1689

32
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Cap by its nature drives beyond national borders and spatial barriers
Conquers whole world for its market - therefore goes beyond geog boundaries
Transformation in relations - GBS - porosity of borders
Marx work surprisingly mod thinking
Space as a means of production

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Marx 1973

33
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Relative Space

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Smith and Katz

34
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Absolute Space

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Rose 1993

35
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Peripheral notion of territory

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Gottman 1973

36
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Pol econ of space

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Soja 1973

37
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Multiscalar notion of territory

Space as organised

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Storey 2001

38
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Territorial Trap

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Agnew 1994

39
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Fallen into a partic mindset with territorial trap

But debate whether this is losing its hist signif whereby states may be about to disappear into the global cosmopolis

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Walker

40
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France - changes in conceptions of territory and national identity
E.g. Chambery: outside territory of France but see self as part of F cult and nat ident

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Breuilly

41
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After G and allies defeated in WW1 - treaties set up to restructure probs created by war
Sep treaties to deal with all defeaeted powers
Germany - treaty

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Treaty of Versailles

42
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Poland as new state

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1919 Peace Negotiation

43
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Failure of Leage of Nations

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Wilson

44
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Frontier - distance, zone where people living

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Gottman

45
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Borders and frontiers separate diff areas of pol activity

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Prescott

46
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Border determines spatiality of control
Bordered power container
Enables state to survive as the territorial space = critical to state’s sov and crediblity

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Cox

47
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Depiction of absolute space
Protection from outside
Sense of community and national identity
Taxable assets - pol econ
De facto limit of sov
Cartog enables mod world pol
Outer extension of defensive system
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Taylor

48
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Wanting territory - sometimes for RSs or agenda to gain land
Geopol reality - I - J comp Hitachi emmiting Kashmir
Annexation and conquest

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Shapiro and Alker

49
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US-Canadian border
Proposed boundaries of indep in 1783 never put in place as were not included in the final treaty
Inaccurate anyway - further arbitration necessary

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Muir

50
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The Pentagon’s new Map
Disconnectedness defines danger
Opposing ability of TST networks to access core via ‘seam states’ that lie along Gap’s bloody boundaries
Equator - non-integ gap

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Thomas Barnett 2004

51
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Mathematical notion of strict, linear boundary = rel modern conception

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Shaw

52
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Warfare and the endurance of states
Some argue war is crucial to state formation and the reasoning for mod EU system
Col dom and implementation of EU’s overseas empires carried out largely through mil

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Lefebvre

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