international relations and natolism

Europe in 1900

-economically dominant, colonized large parts of globe, rivilitray between European powers were mostly over colonial possessions.

International relations

Interactions between territorially based and delimited political groups (states)

How to remain commitments and maintain indepence between states

Diplomacy, international law, international organisations

Conduct of diplomacy

negotiation, signalling (Indirect communication like through newspaper, public diplomacy

cause of decolonization

weaking of European colonial powers in the 2nd world war, growth of nationalist movement in colonized states

The cold war

ideological and military rivalry between two blocks led by the soviet union and us after the end of the second world war until 1990

what’s a nation

shares an objective criteria believes it forms a bounded community which is distinct from other communities

Nation state

A state containing one large, dominant and relatively
homogenous national group

Mutinational state

A state contating several distinct national groups

Multiple nations and

nations are spread over several states which contain several nations like central and eastern Europe

Self proclaimed state

sovereignty not recognised by other states typically claimed on notion of national ethic cultural separatism