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How we came to the Westfalian principles is along story
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Ayşe-Şevval-Raylaz Assignment 2, book assignment, ENG102 Final, adm1122, Adm1122 midterm
| How we came to the Westfalian principles is along story • emergence of some forerunners of our international society /anarchical international society in Greek city states the Italian city states • also seen certain principles emerging among the Indian communities, and the Indian peninsula • among the Chinese dynasties coming under the domination of Chin Dynasty • there has been different political communities with more or less equality among them with certain territoriality • certain principles stemming from cultural storming, stemming from religion, stemming from common heritage shaping their behaviour among themselves differentiating these communities • outsiders barbaric • i.e in Greek communities : struggling with the Persians for very longtime regarding the Persians as the barbarians • how Greek city states have built certain cultural themes to ensure their coexistence as city states became an important forerunner of our anarchical international society • in India similar practices the issue of war • the implementation of war ethics the just code principle emerging in a great sense • becoming the basis of our love of war principles in the coming centuries • we have seen the first traits of international law emerging during this time 8 • we have seen the issues of diplomacy • roots of diplomacy : -> from these periods onwards • emergence the idea that the ambassadors or representatives of states enjoying an immunity although it will be institutionalised • during the Italian city-states: different communities tried to implement certain rules and norms in their day today practice with each other • all the outsiders were barbarians • for example Chinese dynasty -> the dynast the/the leader will engage inactivity or see representatives of other nations only if they recognise the superiority of the Chinese leader • we see that there were certain principles developing from this point onwards or in the practices of these early forerunners • certain principles and norms being shaped landing its way into our current anarchical system • (WHAT?as a more theoretical concept when they're discussing real box services today) • anarchical international system = the lack of a common or the lack of higher authority • no higher authority above the states telling them what to do • there are minimum principles, norms, value regulating the relation between the states actors • there is no total all out war • even when we're not talking about an international society -> we seethe emergence of this concept of the law of nations emerging its rules • when we're talking about this concept of international society-> we mean principles/norms/values -> shaping the existing system • we should not think that international system was always anarchical • there were periods of empires the Roman Empire, Res Publica Christiania • there were periods of constant chaos • political authority being reshaped and periods of constant wars - we had different kinds of empires • being loose, being very tied • trivially empires predominantly based on trade. 9 • one should not think that the international system has always been anarchical • but there has been certain periods of anarchy in history and certain traits of international society where certain principle that institutions were established, helping us understand our current anarchical international society, emerging in 1648 • in ancient periods : small examples very small examples of international societies were more or less equal groups equal in theory, not in power • equal groups, certain city states shared certain and cultural training similar certain principles made certain practices in their daily lives making us think there was an international society This brought us to the Constitution, colonisation, consolidation of today's anarchical international society (meaning 20th century. In world history we have many different periods many different practices. We have empires tied into making empires, we have city states, we have tribal networks. But once we established as the international system, being based on the European example - the emergence of nation states, They are just partial to the rest of the world through different means, colonisation or imperialism and came in time to dominate and became the major characteristic of our understanding. - Download 0.86 Mb. Share with your friends:
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