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Title: International System


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International System
  • The pattern of relations between nation-states
    and non-state international actors

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Comparison
  • Domestic Politics
  • Formal
  • Hierarchical
  • Rules/regulations
  • To produce justice
  • Social contract
  • International Politics
  • Two Views
  • Anarchy
  • Institutionalization

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Categories of Comparison
  • Central Authority
  • Conflict Resolution and Force

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Domestic Politics Central AuthorityUS
Constitution
  • THE PREAMBLE
  • We the People of the United States, in Order to
    form a more perfect Union, establish Justice,
    insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the
    common defence, promote the general Welfare, and
    secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and
    our Posterity, do ordain and establish this
    Constitution for the United States of America.

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US Congress
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Presidency
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US Supreme Court
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International Politics Anarchy No Central
Authority
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Rules? Anarchy?
  • Sovereignty
  • Self-reliance
  • Capability
  • Might makes right

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ButInstitutions Central Authority in the
Making?
  • Geneva Conventions
  • International
  • Criminal Court
  • (Rome Statute)
  • Kyoto Protocol
  • International Whaling
  • Commission
  • World Intellectual
  • Property Rights Org.

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Regional Organizations
  • African Union (AU)
  • Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC)
  • Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
  • The Commonwealth (The UK and nations that were
    former British colonies, but remain close to the
    UK economically and politically)
  • Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO)
    Organization of Central Asian states, from Turkey
    to Kyrgyzstan
  • Economic Community of West African States
    (ECOWAS)
  • European Union (EU)
  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
  • Organization for Security and Cooperation in
    Europe (OSCE)
  • Organization of American States (OAS)
  • Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC)
  • Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
    (OPEC) -- a cartel of oil producing nations that
    spans several regions. 
  • Pacific Community (Pacific Island nations and
    territories)

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Conflict Resolution and Force
  • Domestic Political System?

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Tradition in International System Anarchy?
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Continued Anarchy?
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Might Makes RightUS-Mexican War 1846-1847
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Japanese Constitution 1946
  • Staff member Beate Sirota Gordon, then in her
    early twenties, still remembers the day well
    And one morning I came in..., it was ten a.m.
    and General Whitney head of the government
    section called us into a meeting room. It was
    too small for all of us. Some of us had to stand
    because there were about 25 of us. And he said,
    "You are now a constituent assemblyAnd you will
    write the Japanese constitution. You will write a
    draft and it will have to be done in a week."
    Well, I mean, we were stunned of course. But, on
    the other hand, when you're in the army and you
    get an order, you just do it. You just go ahead.
  • From PBS, The American Experience, MacArthur.
    Available at http//www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/macarthu
    r/peopleevents/pandeAMEX102.html

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Instutionalization?International Conflict
Resolution and Regulation of the Use of Force
  • United Nations
  • Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical
    Weapons
  • Russia-China Border
  • WTO Dispute Resolution Mechanism
  • International Court of Justice

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Old Enemies, New Friends
  • China/Japan Germany/France

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The International System Evolves
  • Anarchy Institutionalization
  • You are here
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