URDANETA CITY UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

SOCIAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
1ST SEMESTER A.Y.2021-2022

The Global Interstate System

 2.3 The Global Interstate System

LESSON OUTCOMES:
At the end of the lesson, the learners are expected to demonstrate the
following:
- Explain the effects of globalization on governments
- Categorize the institutions that govern international relations
- Differentiate internationalism from globalism
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Nation-state
STATE
A compulsory political organization with continuous
operations if and in so far as its administrative staff
successfully upholds a claim on the monopoly of the
legitimate use of physical force in the enforcement of
its orders
- Weber (1997)
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Nation-state
NATION
Emphasizes the organic ties that hold groups of
people together and inspire a sense of loyalty and
belonging – i.e. ethnicity, language, - religion
Schattle (2014)
and
others.
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NATION-STATE
A political community that emanates from civic
society to execute peace legitimately.
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Peace of Westphalia (1618-1648)

Established the notion of state as SOVEREIGN

- legal equality
- non-intervention
- a repudiation of supranationalism as law-making bodies
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The NATION:
1. imagined community
2. limited
3. self-govern
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Westphalia vs. Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleonic Code of the French Empire

- Forbade birth privileges
- Freedom of religion
- Meritrocracy in government
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Concert of Europe (1815 – 1914)

- Sought to restore Europe to the world before the French
Revolution and Napoleon
- Austria, Russia, UK (reactionary countries vs. Napoleon)
Basic Tenets:
1. Return to monarchy
2. Return of Christian values in Europe
3. Refusal to accept the Napoleonic Code
4. Renewed peace in Europe through great power
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Nation – state

• Coercive authority over specific territories (Max Weber)

• Independent political communities with governments (Hedley
Bull)

• An imagined political community (Benedict Anderson)

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Scholars like Apparudai and Ohmae claimed that

globalization has supplanted the states,
it has not.
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The states are accountable to a host of international norms

and standards, find themselves in subordinate positions to
protect their economy and face a new kind of pressures of
supranational integration and focus of local fragmentation
(Schattle, 2014)

Globalization has not displaced the state.

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Effects of globalization on governments

1. Seen as an imposing a forced choice upon states either

they conform to the neo-liberal ideas free-market
principles of deregulation, privatization and free trade
or run the risk of being left behind.

2. Establishment of economic and political integrations

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Effects of globalization on governments

3. The growth of international law and universal

principles
4. The rise of transnational activism
5. Creation a new communication network
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The IGOs
In order to facilitate international connections,
intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) were established.

Their aim is to bind nation-states and to create strong

economic, political, cultural, educational, and technical
relationships.
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The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an intergovernmental organization that regulates

international trade.
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The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote

international cooperation and to create and maintain international order.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is
an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and
European states based on the North Atlantic Treaty
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The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is a regional intergovernmental

organization comprising ten Southeast Asian states which promotes Pan-Asianism
and intergovernmental cooperation
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Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries is an intergovernmental

organization of 14 nations.
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A supranational union is a type of multinational political union where negotiated

power is delegated to an authority by governments of member states.
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The Commonwealth of Nations, also known as simply the Commonwealth, is an

intergovernmental organization of 52 member states that are mostly former territories of the
British Empire.
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The International Criminal Court is an intergovernmental organization and

international tribunal that sits in The Hague in the Netherlands.
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Globalism: An Attitude Internationalism: Theory & Practice

It seeks understand all the interconnections of Nationalism should give way to the links that
modern world and to highlight patterns that binds people of different countries.
underlie them.

It seeks to describe and explain more than a Nations must give up their freedom and submit to
world which is characterized by network of a larger systems – the need for global
connections that span multi-continental distance. government.

It seeks to know the basic network. Nations subject to the universal law of God.
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