Module 3

• 4 KEY ATTRIBUTES OF WORLD POLITICS

  • There are countries or states that are independent and govern themselves.
  • These countries interact each other through diplomacy
  • There are international organizations that facilitate these interactions
  • Beyond simply facilitating meetings between state, international organizations also take on lives on their own.
• Treaty of Westphalia

  • System designed to avert wars in the future by recognizing that the treaty signers exercise complete control over their domestic affairs and swear not to meddle in each other's affairs.
  • Treaty is widely interpreted as giving states the right to political self-determination, to be considered equal from a legal point of view, and as prohibiting them from intervening in the affairs of other sovereign states.
• Internationalism


  Internationalism is a desire for greater cooperation and unity among states and people.
• Two categories of Internationalism:

  Liberal Internationalism

  Socialist Internationalism
• Liberal Internationalism


  is an approach based on the belief that nations can achieve their common goals through increased interaction and cooperation. That asserts each nation equally contributes to global peace and no nation is more important than another.
• Socialist Internationalism


  based upon class as the unifying or divisive factor. For socialist internationalists, class is the foundation of everything and any collective actions must be based upon class consciousness. Prioritization of other ideologies such as nationalism or liberalism and views social phenomena as tools of distraction created by the capitalist system of oppression.
• Liberal Internationalism

  Immanuel Kant

  Jeremy Bentham

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Woodrow Wilson
• Immanuel Kant


  German philosopher who is the first major thinker of liberal internationalism in the 18th Century and imagined a form of global government.
• Jeremy Bentham


  British Utilitarian philosopher who coined the term “international” in 1780 and advocated the creation of “international law” that would govern the inter-state relations.
• Giuseppe Mazzini


  Italian patriot who was the first thinker to reconcile nationalism with liberal internationalism in the 19th century and was both an advocate of the unification of various Italian-speaking mini-states and a major critic of the Metternich system.
• Woodrow Wilson


  US President who became one of the 20th century’s most prominent internationalists. He forwarded the principle of self-determination (belief that the world’s nations had a right to a free and sovereign government).
• Socialist Internationalism

  Karl Marx

  Friedrich Engels

  Socialist International

  Vlademir Lenin

  Communist International (Comintern)

  Joseph Stalin
• Karl Marx


  German socialist and internationalist philosopher who believed that any true form of internationalism should deliberately reject nationalism.
• Friedrich Engels


  supported Karl Marx in a socialist revolution seeking to overthrow the state and alter the economy.
• Socialist International


  was a union of European socialist and labor parties established in Paris in 1889. Their achievements included: May 1 as Labor Day, 8-hr workday, and International Women’s Day.
• Vlademir Lenin


  leader of the Bolshevik Party during the Russian Revolution in 1917 who overthrew Czar Nicholas II and replaced Russia with a revolutionary government (beginnings of Communist parties).
• Communist International (Comintern)


  served as the central body for directing Communist parties all over the world in 1919.
• Joseph Stalin

  successor of Vlademir Lenin who appeased the Allied forces by dissolving the Comintern in 1943 but re-established the Communist Information Bureau (Cominform) after WWII.