POLS 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Diplomatic Immunity, Russian Empire, Non-Interventionism

• School: Mount A, MtA
• Department: Politics And International Relations
• Course: POLS 2301
• Professor: James Devine

Document Summary

Any association of distinct political communities that except common rules, values, institutions. Diplomacy: rules that have been in effect since the treaty of westphalia, diplomatic immunity. International law: wasn"t (cid:448)ery (cid:449)ide ranging. Balance of power: peace is kept by states of similar power offsetting each other, no one state dominates, prevents the rise of one power. New forms of community, failing states, american hegemony, resistance to western ideas, poverty, environment. Key points in history: wwi and the end of the age of european empires, wwi destroys ottoman empire, austro-hungarian empire, german empire and.