POLI104 additional reading - Mueller 2016 'When is Imperialism'- the state sovereignty and imperialism

Flashcards covering key vocabulary and concepts related to imperialism and state sovereignty from the lecture notes.

Imperialism

A concept interpreted in many ways, leading to ambiguity regarding its basic features

How is State Sovereignty commonly conceptualised

In spatial terms, involving boundaries, territory, jurisdiction

Critical Temporality

A perspective that avoids reinforcing the spatial ideology that legitimizes sovereign state rule

Discourse of Eternity

The idea that the state is treated as if it were both a particular entity and a manifestation of the category of 'the state'.

Methodological Nationalism

Assumed nature of the nation-state as the timeless norm for collective organization and its legally defined borders

Politics of Origins

Involves defining a specific moment in time as the basis for power, authority, and claims to state sovereignty

Paulina Ochoa Espejo view on state legitimacy

analyzes the ‘vicious circle’ haunting efforts to ground or determine a source of legitimacy within a new state

Formal Imperialism

direct acquisition of control by a state over other territories, integrated into a political administration

Informal Imperialism

the importance of economic institutions, processes, and actors in maintaining economic and political power internationally

State-Capital Theories of Imperialism

emphasising the conjoined nature of the relationship between capitalism and the state.

Hobson’s Theory of Imperialism

States overflow their natural banks, extending their political power over territory and populations too foreign to be absorbed and too compact to be permanently crushed

Critical Temporality of Imperialism

Sovereign state rule as always-already imperial

Hendrik Spruyt view on empires

Empires are forms of rule wherein there are distinctly differentiated component parts, often sorted along racial or ethnic lines

Internal Colonialism

the white privilege and class domination helps explain systematic inter- group dominance and inequity