POLI 212 Lecture Notes - Ottoman Empire, France 5, Proletariat

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 212
• Professor: Hudson Meadwell

Document Summary

January 23, 2012: territorial states as the turning point and wars in europe, philpott, the state is the fundamental principle of political organization in europe. Underpins everything: philpott looks at the evolution of interstate society through a specific event, westphalia crystallizes the longterm dynamics that we associate with the creation of a territorial state, philpott is both conventional and different. Conventional his identification of the peace or treaty of westphalia. Privileges state autonomy and rejects universal papal and imperial authority. Treats states as formally equal despite their domestic capabilities. Reformation = political sovereignty defined within state borders. 2 challenges to catholicism in europe: democratic republicanism challenge in the french revolution, protestant reformation (earlier) Entrenches the enduring processes of political organization (the state) Imagining a protestant prince/monarch: states and regimes a particular territory, political regime summarizing the rules of the political game in place within.