PACS 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Territorial Integrity, Montevideo Convention, Law Of Obligations

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Peace And Conflict Studies
• Course: PACS 10
• Professor: Zook, D C

Document Summary

Pacs 10 lecture 2 the periodic table of peace studies. The state is central to understanding international peace and conflict. Pacs both accepts and challenges the nature of the state. The state is often seen as the natural unit of politics. State-centrism is the view that governments matter more than citizens. It is the operative element of all international institutions. Lack of clarity: opportunity for conflict or conquest. The closer you are to the queen for example, the more power there is. Grew into a political struggle for control of europe. Moved to create peace treaty with more definitive boundaries. New system of political and legal statehood. Origins created by war and settled by peace. Uniform and legal sovereignty power is uniformly strong throughout area. Central monopoly on use of force (state as central actor) Non-interference in domestic affairs of other states. Legal obligation to abide by international agreements. States had monopoly on use of force.