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Why do IR scholars use the 1648 Treaties of Westphalia as a benchmark?

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  • Marked the end of religious rule in Europe; emergence of secular authorities
  • SOVEREIGNTY: emergence of the notion of the territorial integrity of states as legally equal and sovereign participants in the intl system
  • CENTRALIZATION: states developed their our militaries; military power grows
  • Core European states emerged: Austria, Russia, Prussia, England, France, & the United Provinces (Netherlands)
2
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What is sovereighty?

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  • No authority above the state, e.g., the church

- States still limited by regime type, constitutions, treaties, cultural norms, etc.

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What is legitimacy?

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Consent of the governed

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What is nationalism?

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people identifying with a common past, language, customs, and territory, i.e., coming together as a nation of people

identification with one’s own nation and support for its interests, especially at the exclusion or the detriment of other nation’s interests

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What is imperialism?

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the annexation of distant territory (most often by force) and its inhabitants to an empire

extending a country’s rule over foreign people, often by military force

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What is colonialism?

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Settling of people from a home country among indigenous people of a different territory and establishing political control over the area

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How much of the world had Europeans colonized by 1914?

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4/5

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What is a hegemon?

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a predominant state; a state with more power than any other state in the region

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How many people died during the Cold War? (How many people are dying during ongoing proxy wars?)

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In Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America, over 40 million people died during superpower proxy wars from 1946-1990.

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What is populism?

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a political approach that strives to appeal to ordinary people who believe elites have disregarded their concerns

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What was a rollback strategy during the Cold War?

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pushing the USSR back to its own borders

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What was containment of the USSR?

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devise policies that restrained the USSR, but not necessarily using military force