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The State

Independent, self-governing political community

Makes binding rules on a population



State broader than government

Modern State

Much more active

Manage the economy


Provide or regulate healthcare


Offer social welfare


Regulate the environment

Government

The institutions and politicians who make decisions on behalf of the state

The leadership that runs the state

Failed States

Nominally independent

Cannot enforce laws or maintain order


Cannot protect Lives of Citizens


Cannot provide Basic Services

Contested Territories

Territorial disputes

Uncertain Futures


Israel and Occupied territories


Kashmir(India/Pakistan)


East Asian island disputes

Treaty of Westphalia

(1648) Signed after the Thirty Years War-

Credited by many for the birth of the modern interstate system


Westphalian values are state-centric i.e.,they place countries/the nation-state at the heart of international affairs and at the center of the global system of power and order

Nation-State

A sovereign state based on the people living in a country who share a sense of being a member of a particular nation”

Modern states referred to as nation-states


In reality, many states not actually based on a single nation

Nation

Group of people with a common identity Typically believe they should be self-governing in their traditional territories or homeland

(Navajo Nation)

Nationalism

Based on the view that the nation-state is the best form of political community

Nation-State should be self-governing. Led to the creation of new states


- Ethnic Nationalism: common ancestry, cultural traditions and language Sometimes oppress those who are not of the same ethnicity


Civic Nationalism: shared political values and political history

Freedom

Key political values, especially in democracies



Ability to act as one wants, without interference, restraints, coercion


Functioning political communities place limits on individuals to prevent harm being done to others.

Negative Freedom

Protect against physical and legal restraints

freedom from coercion, range of choices without the state asserting which is best

Positive Freedom

Capacity to do something enjoyable or worth doing

provides the means(e.g. money, education). Responsibility to remove social and economic obstacles to freedom-


So individuals in a primitive society with little or no government are less free than those who are subject to the laws of a modern, wealthy democracy