Is the state still powerful

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Is the state still powerful?
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YES!

• In many ways, more is expected of the state today
  than ever before.
• Economics, social justice, law, etc.
• Despite even Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher,
  there is a broad consensus that the state should
  be involved in many areas of our life.
• Third Way government services delegated to
  some private companies, market rules for
  government programs, etc.
• Still, the buck stops at the state.

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More Detailed Descriptions, terms to know

• Government as a producer role 1
• Public Policy role 2 Extraction of resources,
  distribution, regulation of human behavior, and
  symbolic policies
• Nightwatchman State- regulation at preserving
  law, order, and commerce. Protection too.
• Police State- more regulation and more extraction
  of resources.
• Junta Government of military rulers.
• Father knows best state regulation, much with
  personal liberty too, ie NOT Amsterdam
• Crony Capitalism Government allows private
  business, but private business usually has
  friends in high places. Chicago on a large
  scale.
• Petrol State States with lots of energy
  natural resources ironically tend to have more
  problems. The government uses the state oil
  wealth to favor favorites and expand its reach.
  Nigeria, Venezuela, Russia, and much of the
  Middle East have this curse of oil.
• Welfare state lots of distribution, many times
  government in the economy in a more serious way.
• More effective, more participation, more
  legitimacy.

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Other Labels for State Power
Parliamentary Democracy the most common way to
do things.
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• Presidential Democracy some of the states we
  will study, although less common overall.

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Federal? Elections?
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Is the state still powerful? It aint 1914 anymore

• Isolation these days is almost impossible
• Nation-States find it difficult to achieve best
  alone
• More nation-states than ever before complicate
  the world. Huntingtons third wave of
  democratization.
• Federation vs. Confederation vs. International
  Organization.
• Democratic Peace Theory, Nuclear Peace theory
  (because I dont know where else to put these
  things).

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International Organizations

• Domains 1 Regional, 2 Continental, 3
  International
• Purposes Economic (OPEC, IMF, WTO),
  Military(NATO, Warsaw Pact), Cultural (The
  Commonwealth of Nations), Multi-dimensional (The
  UN, EU, African Union)

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Observations

• Ironically the increased internationalization may
  make it more possible, not less, for smaller
  states to survive. Jihad v. McWorld
• Many nation-states breaking up into smaller
  sub-units
• States even necessary? Al Qaeda and NGOs exert
  power around the world without being states.
• Canada. Spain. Russia. Czech Republic. Slovakia.
  Yugoslavia. Serbia. China?