Module 3

• Globalization

  The deepening of interactions between states
• International relations

  • Political, military, and other diplomatic engagements between two countries
• Internationalization

  The deepening of interactions between states
• Attributes of today's global system

  • Sovereignty
  • Diplomacy
  • International Organization
• State

  • A country and its government which has four attributes: sovereignty, citizens, territory, government
• Nation


  An "imagined community" or the people who have imbibed a particular culture, speak a common language, and live in a specific territory
• The Treaty of Westphalia was signed


  1648
• The Treaty of Westphalia recognized that the treaty signers exercise complete control over their domestic affairs and swear not to meddle in each other's affairs
• Napoleon Bonaparte challenged the power of kings, nobility, and religion in Europe and implemented the Napoleonic Code
• The Napoleonic Wars lasted


  1803-1815
• The Concert of Europe sought to restore the world of monarchial, hereditary, and religious privileges of the time before the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars
• Internationalism


  A desire for greater cooperation and unity among states and people
• Categories of Internationalism


  • Liberal Internationalism
  • Socialist Internationalism
• Liberal Internationalism


  Immanuel Kant's vision of a form of global government
• Jeremy Bentham


  Coined the term "international" in 1780 and advocated the creation of "international law" that would govern the inter-state relations
• Giuseppe Mazzini


  Reconciled nationalism with liberal internationalism in the 19th century and believed that free, unified nation-states should be the basis of global cooperation
• Woodrow Wilson


  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's belief that any true form of internationalism should deliberately reject nationalism
• 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


  A union of European socialist and labor parties established in Paris in 1889 that achieved May 1 as Labor Day, 8-hr workday, and International Women's Day
• Vladimir Lenin


  Leader of the Bolshevik Party during the Russian Revolution in 1917 who overthrown Czar Nicholas II and replaced Russia with a revolutionary government (beginnings of Communist parties)
• Communist International (Cominterm)


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


  Successor of Vladimir Lenin who appeased the Allied forces by dissolving the Cominterm in 1943 but re-established the Communist Information Bureau (Cominform) after WWII
• Plato: 'The measure of a man is what he does with power'