POL S212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Totalitarianism, Natural And Legal Rights, Minority Treaties
18 Aug 2017
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The decline of the nation state and the end of the rights of. Fascist regimes were in power in italy and spain, popularly supported totalitarian regimes were established with hitler"s germany and. Stalin"s soviet union: wwi and wwii had devastating consequences for europe and the world. From arendt"s critical perspective, the political and economic collapse of. Europe extended to its intellectual, moral, and cultural traditions as well. The vital human condition between the past and the present had been severed (michael mccarthy 2015, political philosophy the essential texts, 841) Europe, and along with these mass migrations, denationalization became a weapon of totalitarian politics. In the states created by the results of wwi, about 30% were treated as exceptions who had to be protected by minority treaties. The treaties which resolved wwi lumped many different peoples together in the same state, such as croats and slovenes in yugoslavia, and falsely assumed they would be equal partners in government.
