Prelim Flashcards
is a community of persons more or less numerous,
permanently occupying a definite portion of territory, having a government to which the great majority of people render obedience and enjoys freedom or sovereignty from external control.
State
Elements of State
People
Territory
Government
Sovereignty
portion of the earth over which the state’s jurisdiction extends.
Territory
agency through which the will of the state is enforced.
Government
the supreme, absolute and uncontrollable power by which an independent state is governed.
Sovereignty
Based on this theory state is of divine creation and the rulers were ordained by God to rule.
Theory of divine right
Dictators throughout history used this theory to
justify their tyrannical rule.
Divine right theory
The state was created when some strong warrior imposed his will on the other members of the community.
Force or Necessity Theory
state was formed through the enlargement of the family
Paternalistic Theory
The state was created when people entered into a voluntary agreement to live together (the social phase) and to establish a government (the political phase).
Social contract theory
T/F
State is a political concept
T
T/F
Nation is an ethical concept
T
refers to a people existing in an organized society, inhabiting a portion of the earth, speaking the same language, having the same customs, possessing the same historic continuity and distinguished from other groups by their racial origins and characteristics, and generally living under one government and sovereignty.
Nation
refers to a state whose territorial extent coincides with that occupied by a distinct nation or people, or at least, whose population shares a general sense of cohesion and adherence to a set of common values.
Nation-state
T/F
A State can exist without people; A nation can’t exist stateless.
F (can’t, can)
T/F
A nation could not be living in many states
F (could)
T/F
State can be composed of many nations.
T
Rights of state
Existence and self defense
Independence
Equality
Legation
Property and domain
Acquire territory and increase domain
Jurisdiction
the right of a state to use force against an aggressor state when and to the extent it appears to it and it reasonably believes that such conduct is necessary to defend itself from such aggressor’s imminent or act of unlawful force .
Rifght of existence and self defense
It is the right of a state to be free from dependence, dictation, subjection, control and intervention of another state or exterior power.
Right of Independence
based on the doctrine that states are equal as international persons regardless of differences in size, population, power, degree of civilization etc.
Right of Equality
it is the right of a state to enter into diplomatic relations with other states by receiving and sending diplomatic representatives.
Right of legation
fullest and most superior right ofpropertyin land
Domain
refers to the power of a state to affect persons, property, and circumstances within its territory.
Jurisdiction
Mode of acquiring territory
Discovery
Occupation
Prescription
oldest method of acquiring title to territory
Discovery
intentional acquisition by a state over a territory which at the time of claim not under the sovereignty of any state
Occupation
the territory subject of claim must not be under the sovereignty of any state
Terra nullius
continued occupation over a long period of time by one state of territory actually and originally belonging to another state
Prescription
transfer of territory usually by treaty from one state to another
Cession
transfer of sovereignty from the owner state to another state
Concomitant of transfer of territory
acquiring territory by the use of force
Conquest
attainment of sovereignty over new land due to slow movement of natural forces
Accretion
creation of an island in territorial waters due to volcanic eruption
Avulsion
process of creating new land from oceans, riverbeds, or lake beds
Reclamation
T/F
The following has a major impact on the power of a state Its electoral system
F
T/F
The following has a major impact on the power of a state area of its territory
T
T/F
The following has a major impact on the power of a state size of its population
T
T/F
The following has a major impact on the power of a state form of its government
F
T/F
The following has a major impact on the power of a state quality of its population
T
T/F
The following has a major impact on the power of a state available natural resources
T
T/F
The following has a major impact on the power of a state language the people speak
F
T/F
The following has a major impact on the power of a state size of its territorial waters
F
T/F
The following has a major impact on the power of a state homogeneity of its population
F
T/F
The following has a major impact on the power of a state region of the earth where it is located
T
The following state actions are legal under International Law:
The US claimed the area at the Mississippi delta.
T
The following state actions are legal under International Law:
Israel annexed Palestinian lands it won in the 1967 War.
F
The following state actions are legal under International Law:
China invaded and annexed Tibet, an independent Kingdom.
F
The following state actions are legal under International Law:
Russia invaded the Ukrainian territory of Crimea and annexed it.
F
The following state actions are legal under International Law:
The Philippines claimed Benham Rise, an unclaimed territory, by applying for it at the UN.
T
The following state actions are legal under International Law:
The UAE reclaimed parts of the Persian Gulf within its territorial waters.
T
The following state actions are legal under International Law:
The Netherlands reclaimed lands near its shores to widen its living space.
T
The following state actions are legal under International Law:
The United States exercised sovereignty over Alaska after purchasing it from Russia.
T
The following state actions are legal under International Law:
Russia invaded Georgia’s South Ossetia region and declared it an independent country..
F
The following state actions are legal under International Law:
China reclaims islands in the South China Sea, 700 miles away from its nearest province.
F
process of interaction and integration among people, companies, and governments worldwide.
Globalization
Considered as capitalist expansion which entails the integration of local and national economies into a global, unregulated market economy.
Globalization
Types of globalization
Political
Economical
Cultural
increasing economic interdependence of national economies across the world through a rapid increase in cross-border movement of goods, services, technology, and capital.
Economical globalization
transmission of ideas, meanings, and values around the world in such a way as to extend and intensify social relations
Cultural globalization
involves the formation of shared norms and knowledge with which people associate their individual and collective cultural identities
Cultural globalization
refers to the growth of the worldwide political system, both in size and complexity.
Political globalization
T/F
One of the key aspects of the political globalization is the declining importance of the nation-state and the rise of other actors on the political scene
T
“the expansion of a global political system, and its institutions, in which inter-regional transactions (including, but certainly not limited to trade) are managed”.
William Thompson
linked with the rise of a global financial system with international financial exchanges and monetary exchanges
Financial globalization
information moves almost in real-time, together with the interconnection and interdependence of events and their consequences. People move all the time too, mixing and integrating different societies
Sociological globalization
phenomenon by which millions of people are interconnected thanks to the power of the digital world via platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Skype or Youtube
Technological globalization
new organization and hierarchy of different regions of the world that is constantly changing
Geographical globalization
accounts for the idea of considering planet Earth as a single global entity – a common good all societies should protect since the weather affects everyone and we are all protected by the same atmosphere
Ecological globalization
consistent pattern of opinion on particular issues that stems from a core belief or set of beliefs
ideology
who coin the term ideology
Count Antoine Destutt
de Tracy
refer to a new science of
ideas
ideology
it is basically, a plan to
improve society
ideology
People who favor giving the government a bigger role in the area of economic security
Economic /fiscal liberal
People who oppose giving the government a bigger role in the area of economic security
social/fiscal conservative
People who favor giving the government a bigger role in the area of social lives
social conservative
People who oppose giving the government a bigger role in the area of social lives
social liberal
when did classical liberalism begins
1776 during the production of the book The Wealth of Nation by Adam Smith
capital is best employed for the production and distribution of wealth under conditions of governmental non-interference, or laissez-faire, and free trade
The Wealth of Nation
what principle did Adam Smith proclaim
invisible hand
