Contemporary World

they study political, military and diplomatic engagements between two or more countries

International Relations

How many key attributes does the world politics has

4 key attributes

What are the key attributes of world politics

1. there are countries or states that are independent and govern themselves.

2. these countries interact with each other through diplomacy.

3. there are international organizations, like the United Nations (UN), that facilitate these interactions.

4. beyond simply facilitating meetings between states, international organizations also take on lives of their own.

Other task specific agencies aside from UN

1, WHO- World Health Organization

2. International Labour Organization (ILO)

composed of two non-interchangeable terms. Not all states are nations and not all nations are states.

Nation state

refers to acountry and itsgovernment,

State

Four attributes of state

, it exercises authority over a specific population, called its citizens. Second, ti governs a specific territory. Third, a state hasa structure of government that crafts various rules that people (society) follow. Fourth andthe most crucial, the state has sovereignty over its territory.

The sovereignty refers to

External and internal

no individuals or groups can operate

in a given national territory by ignoring the state. This means that groups like churches, civil society organizations, corporations,

and other entities have to follow the laws of the state where they esstablish their parishes, offices, or headquarters.

Internal Sovereignty

sovereignty means that a state's policies and procedures are independent of the interventions of other states.

External

It is an imagined community

Nation

Who defeated Napoleon

Anglo and Prussian in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815

It is the alliance of great power- United Kingdom, Austria, Russia, Prussia

Concert of Europe

the desire for greater cooperation and unity among states and peoples.

Internationalism

Major thinker of liberal internationalism

Immanuel Kant

Who coined the word international

Jeremy Bentham

Who advocated to have a international law

Jeremy Bentham

the activities associated with the governance of a country or other area, especially the debate or conflict among individuals or parties having or hoping to achieve power.

Politics

focus on individual states and their governance structure

Internal politics

examination of interactions between states, known as international relations

External politics

External politics

interaction between states, a significant aspect of globalization

Internationalization

The nation-state, a term used in academia, refers to a relatively modern phenomenon in human history.

•People didn’t always organize themselves into countries

Nation state

What has the state have

A country and its government

A country and its government

advocates for democracy, free markets, and international cooperation among sovereign states.

liberal internationalism

promotes solidarity and equality among working-class people globally, advocating for social justice and economic equality

Socialist Internationalism

Advocated for a world government to prevent lawlessness

•Proposed establishment of a global state consisting of various nations

Immanuel Kant

Advocated for the creation “international law” to govern inter- state relations

•Proposed legislation aimed at maximizing happiness of all nations

•Coined the word “international” (1780)

Jeremy Bentham

19th-century Italian patriot

•Republican government without hereditary monarchy

•Proposed cooperative international system based on free, independent states •Nationalist internationalist promoting free, unified nation-states as basis of global cooperation

Giuseppe Mazzini

Promotion of nationalism as a prerequisite for internationalism •Advocacy for the principle of “self-determination”

•Vision for free and sovereign nations as democracies

•Notable advocacy for the creation of the League of Nations •Transformation of the League into a venue for conciliation and arbitration.

Woodrow Wilson

•Emphasis on rejection of nationalism for true internationalism

•Focus on economic equality over national identity •Division of the world into classes rather than countries •Distinction between capitalist class (owners of means of production) and proletariat class (workers)

•Belief in proletarian internationalism and unity

Karl Marx

When was the socialist internationalism is established

1889