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Evolution of World Politics
International Relations
Or
World Politics
Regarding the International System:
The notion that the world is more than just the sum of its parts (countries)
and
World politics is more than just the sum of the individual interactions among those parts
What does this mean?
Distribution of Power
Patterns of action among actors in World Politics
System: a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole
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Mid to late 15th century began:
integration and disintegration
Treaty of Westphalia,1648
18th century -- early 20th century:
Popular sovereignty
Westernization
Culmination of multipolarity
The times they are a changin’
Each dot represents 1 million people
Uranium or mine?
Across the pond in a
speedy 10 days
Deterrence Theory argues that fear of retaliation would serve as a deterrent to conflict
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World Peace
The United Nations
A new polar system?
Weakening Western orientation of the system?
Challenge to authority of the state?
Fall of Soviet Union
A new polar system?
Hegemon: Dominant regional/world power(s)
Hegemony: Exercise of said power
Uni-polar
Multi-polar
Modified Multi-polar
Weakening Western orientation of the system?
Challenge to authority of the state?
Forces splintering states into fragments (jihad)Others merging states into an integrated McWorld
If Jihad prevails: “grim prospect of a retribalization of large swaths of humankind by war and bloodshed: a threatened balkanization of nation-states in which culture is pitted against culture, people against people, tribe against tribe.”On the other hand: melding of “nations into one homogenous global theme park, one McWorld tied together by communications, information, entertainment and commerce.”
We are “caught between Babel and Disneyland….the planet is falling precipitously apart and coming reluctantly together at the very same moment.”
Security
11 million people killed in wars of 20th century
New and greater forms of international security
Multilateral Arms Regulation and Disarmament Agreements
1925 Geneva ProtocolAntarctic TreatyAPM Convention (Mine-Ban Convention)Bangkok TreatyBWCCCWCCelestial BodiesCFECluster MunitionsCTBTCWCENMODInter-American ConventionInter-American Convention on TransparencyNPTOpen SkiesOuter Space
Partial Test BanPelindaba TreatySea-Bed TreatyTreaty of RarotongaTreaty of TlatelolcoTreaty on a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Central Asia
International Security Forces
UN Peacekeepers
“NATO has helped to end bloody conflicts in Bosnia, Kosove and head off a civil war in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Today, NATO-led forces are helping to bring about stability to Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq and Darfur.”
--NATO Website
Human Rights
Evolving concept?
Global Environmental Sustainability
An issue of national security?
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