Global Interstate System Flashcards
Max weber define it as a compulsory political organization with a centralized government that maintains a monopoly of the legitimate use of force within a certain territory.
State
It is a independent political communities each of which possesses a government and asserts sovereignty in relation to a particular portion of the earth’s surface and a particular segment of the human population
States
an imagined political community and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign.
Nation
the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow- members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion.
It is imagined/ nation is imagined
even the largest of them, encompassing perhaps a billion human beings, has finite, if elastic, boundaries, beyond which lie other nations.
Nation is imagined as limited
the concept was born in an age in which Enlightenment and Revolution were destroying the legitimacy of the divinely ordained, hierarchical dynastic realm…nations dream of being free, and if under God, directly so.
It is imagined as sovereign/nation is imagined as sovereign
The gauge and emblem of this freedom is the sovereign state.
It is imagined as sovereign/nation is imagained as sovereign
regardless of actual inequality and exploitation that may prevail in each, the nation is always conceived as a deep horizontal comradeship.
It is imagined as community/nation is imagined as community
territorial organizations characterized by the monopolization of legitimate violence (qua states)
Nation-states
Nation-state are territorial organizations characterized by the monopolization of legitimate violence.
Qua states
membership associations with a collective identity and a democratic pretension to rule (qua nation).
Nation-states
Nation-states are membership associations with a collective identity and a democratic pretension to rule.
Qua Nation
imposes a forced choice upon states either to conform to free market principles or run the risk of being left behind.
Globalization
globalization imposes a forced choice upon states either to conform to free market principles or run the risk of being left behind is termed into a phrase called?
Golden Straitjacket
It used to illustrate the forcing of states into policies that suit the preferences of investment houses and corporate executives
Golden Straitjacket
There are two things that will happen if a country is in Golden Straitjacket:
The economy grow and the politics shrinks
it narrows the political and economic policy choices of those in power to relatively tight parameters.
Straitjacket
is the intensification of the influence and dominance of capital.
Neoliberalism
is the elevation of capitalism as a mode of production into an ethic, a set of political imperatives, and a cultural logic.
Neoliberalism
It is a project to strengthen, restore, or, in some cases, constitute anew the power of economic elites.
Neoliberalism
It values market exchange as an ethic in itself capable of acting as a guide to all human action and substituting for all previous held ethical beliefs.
Neoliberalism
It emphasizes the significance of contractual relations in the marketplace.
Neoliberalism
It also holds that the social good will be maximized by maximizing the reach and frequency market transactions, and it seeks to bring all human action into domain of the market.
Neoliberalism
is the power or national governments to make decisions independently of those made by other governments.
Economics Sovereignty