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• State

  • the institution that creates warfare and sets economic policies for a country.
  • a political unit that has authority over its own affairs.
  • a distinctive political economy with its own set of rules and practices and that is more or less from other communities.
• Government - a group of people who have the ultimate authority to act on behalf of state.
• Election - provides the leadership of the state.
• Civil Societies - having their own rules (businesses, churches, schools, hospitals).
• Codified - arranged by constitution(written laws)
• Autonomous - independent
• Challenges to Government and State Autonomy - traditional challenges, challenges from national identity movements, global economics, and global social movements
• Saddam Hussein - ruler of Iraq in 1990's, who invaded Kuwait and took it over.
• Non-State Organization - seeks power to depose a government and replace the system with their own ideological belief
• Neoliberal Economics - seen as threat, because a state cannot protect its own economic interest as a sovereign state.
• Social Movements - are movements of people that are spontaneous or that emerge through enormous grassroot organization. these social movements are transnational movements which means they occur across borders. therefore, states have less control over them.
• 4 elements of state - people, territory, government, sovereignty
• Nation - refers to a people rather than any kind of formal territorial boundaries or institutions. has shared history and culture.
• Philippines as State - a POLITICAL CONCEPT that refers to Philippine Government, the Philippine Territory, and its internal and external sovereignty.
• Philippines as Nation - a CULTURAL CONCEPT that refers to our shared collection notion of democracy, our history, and our collective identity.