Week 2 Flashcards
The Round Table (Movement 1909, Journal 1910)
- a quarterly review of the politics of the British Empire
- the journal still exists today
The Journal of Race Development (1910-1919)
- it wasn’t about the “white, black, asian race”, it was about the “Irish, Scottish, Dutch”, etc, races
The Journal of International Relations
- Council of Foreign Relations (1920)
- as nations became states after war, the terminology started to change
The Journal of Foreign Affairs (1922-today)
- policy oriented journal
- not hugely theoretical, much more practical - shows the progression of how the language of international affairs has changed
(nation-)state
- territory, people, government (with legitimate monopoly on use of coercion) + sovereignty (de facto and/or de jure)
sovereignty
- at a minimum
- 1) gained through recognition by other states, and
2) confers some legal measure of freedom from interfere in international affairs (i.e. no higher authority) or
3) carved out empirically (i.e. capacity both internal (governance/legitimacy) and external (security))
Negative sovereignty
- de jure/legal, freedom from interference
- it doesnt give you the power to interfere or do whatever you want
does give you a sort of legal protection
Positive Sovereignty
- de facto/empirical
- capacity to govern
Anarchy
- does not mean chaos or disorder; simply means a system where there is no higher authority, no legitimate hierarchical structure above the level of state (i.e. no world government hegemony)
International Relations (IR) vs. Global Politics (GP)
- a study of interactions of states/other actors in international system vs relations among various organizations/global social relations that transcends regions & continents
Ontology
- What is real? How does the world work?
Epistemology
- How can we agree about what is a valid knowledge claim?
Methodology
- How do we go about discovering new facts or testifying/falsifying our theories/hypothesis?
- How am I going to discover new facts and convince other people that these are facts?
War and Security
- conflict
Trade and commerce
- cooperation
Rivalry and Balance of Power
- conflict & cooperation
Institutionalization of Diplomacy & Trade (even war)
- cooperation
Globalization, global governance, and resistance
- conflict & cooperation
Diverse forms of political community prior to Westphalian State
- hunter/gatherer societies
- nomadic, village, or acephalous societies
- city states
- principalities
- centralized, hierarchical kingdoms or states
- overlapping authorities & allegiances
Thucydides
- first social scientific historian…didn’t rely on the Gods for his information
- History of the Pelponnesian War
Sun Tzu
- The Art of War
- He was writing a guide to better governance, and how to win the war
“Realist” insights from History of the Pelponessian War
- always better to be powerful than weak
- systemic rivalry/challenge to status quo BoP causes war
- reputation and credible commitment are important aspects of power
- appeals to justice and reliance on distant allies, in the face of power, are irrational
