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    Westphalian State System

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    since the creation of the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 AD. The Westphalian ‘state system’ saw the end to the destructive thirty-year war in the seventeenth-century, creating a peaceful resolution to end the conflict and establishing territorial sovereignty. The fundamental roles states have been assigned include create justice and order, welfare, freedom, unity and most importantly protection of the people they govern (Langhorne, 2000). In pre-history, humans transitioned from nomadic behaviour…

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    Sovereignty In North Korea

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    Today I will be talking about the never-ending problem that is known as sovereignty. Sovereignty is basically a self-rule within a country’s own boundaries. This creates a problem for all country’s simply because this establishes the question, “Is there a certain point in which the Country should intervene and disrupt sovereignty in another community.” Basically, there are certain points in which some things might happen, resulting in the United States needing to respond. However, we must keep…

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    Aboriginal Sovereignty

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    RESEARCH QUESTION Consider how Canadian colonial policy has affected Aboriginal sovereignty in the post-confederation Canada and modern day Canada; examine factors that influenced the right to exercise these sovereignty claims through a Foucauldian lens considering race and racialization. METHODOLOGY I will be evaluating my question as a within-case comparison, looking that the differences over time, in this instance post-confederation Canada (1867) and modern day Canada…

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    political communities. Secondly, the rapid increase in globalization has caused state sovereignty to decline. Lastly, the increase in transnational corporations has had a negative impact on states. The weakening of state power has created a…

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    In Hass’s article, he describes the concept of basic sovereignty, which is the final authority and every right of a nation, insufficient to stabilize international order. With today’s disrupted international order, the globalizing world is filled with problems having to do with climate, network, chaos, and public health. This is because countries have had the same traditional sovereignty system, and it is time to evolve in the globalizing world. For so long, this operating system has been mainly…

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    Our Constitution: Does it need to be reformed? Anybody who has ever run knows you can’t just randomly go out a run five miles without pain or taking breaks. It takes time, dedication, and patience to get into shape for running so that you are able to run those five miles painless and efficiently. Take that into consideration for a national state convention, you can’t just call for one and expect everything to run smoothly. It takes small steps in order to pursue great things. If the states were…

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    What is the relationship between the self-determination of peoples and the sovereignty of states in contemporary international politics? 1 This report elucidates the link between sovereignty of states & self-determination of peoples therefore the focal point of this essay is to elaborate on the underlying concept of sovereignty as it incorporates the protection and the practice of various human rights as stipulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The main goal of this…

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    For centuries, China has maintained its power and influence by enforcing the system of Feudalism. However, industrial developments, globalization, and exchange of political thought have forced China to reconsider its administration. Historically, China has gone through multiple transitions — through hierarchal feudal state, communist municipal and disciplinary regime. There is one notable unchanging, and static fact— that throughout these platforms, China was never ruled collectively (even…

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    After Waltz opened the door in the structural theory, other neorealists created theories to build on top of Waltz’s foundation. One in particular, John Mearsheimer, agreed with almost everything that Waltz said, except for his stance on security. In Waltz’s neorealism theory, he spoke about the security dilemma, and how that shapes a states foreign policy, and how they, in turn acts towards others. Mearsheimer offers the offensive realism theory, which is the opposite to the defensive theory…

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    Iran’s form of hegemonic internationalism is nuclear weapons. Iran has been trying to develop nuclear arms to guarantee Iran’s security, economy, and international status. If Iran were to develop nuclear arms, the United States and other allied nations couldn’t just invade Iran because if they did a nuclear missile could be launched at their nation inflicting millions of innocent deaths that would ultimately be their fault. Building nuclear arms also enhances Iran’s status as a “leading state”…

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