the state + globalisation

• homogenisation and monoculture


  coming together of global cultures and development of a single culture without diversity
• 1648 Peace of Westphalia - established state sovereignty
• features of state sovereignty

  -monopoly on military force

  -de factor - internal sovereignty

  -de jure - external sovereignty

  -sole authority of laws
• features of a state

  -sovereignty

  -agreed borders

  -permanent population

  -functioning government
• reasons for erosion of internal sovereignty

  -civil war

  -international laws/human rights

  -humanitarian intervention
• current failed states

  -Libya

  -Somaliland

  -Syria

  -Yemen
• homogenisation and monoculture



  coming together of global cultures and development of a single culture without diversity