POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Total War, High Standard Manufacturing Company, Crimean War
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It consists of all the relations among states. A state is the institution that has the highest authority, it has a monopoly over the legitimate use of violence (weber"s definition) The components of a state are: the executive, the legislator, the bureaucracy, the army and the judicial. A bureaucrat is an official who provides ministers with the information they need to run the minister. Whether or not they are permanent it depends on the system. Us the bureaucracy is not permanent, for example. Canada, uk)the bureaucracy emerges out of the legislature. Legislature is the body that debates and makes low. State can be democratic, undemocratic, republican, monarchist, secular, religious. Stakes partly depends on one"s view of human nature and political association. Rousseau believed that people were by nature peacefull but the institution corrupts them. Hobbes believed that without an institution the life would be nasty, sad and above all short . International system is an effort to achieve peace.
