POL208Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Oil Reserves, Warsaw Pact, Spanish Armada
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Use of military powers to enrich imperial countries. Hobbes: wealth is power & power is wealth . Favour the mother country over both colonies and competing empires. > strategic use of state monopolies (no competition, they decide the price) > trade controls (import and export restrictions: europeans struggled for more territory and power > lead to con ict between them. England vs. spain > defeat of the spanish armada (they gained naval control of trade routes) 30 year war and the peace of westphalia. * considered to have created the modern state system (sovereignty) * States have ultimate authority when it comes to their own policies and practices. Supremacy of the state as a decision maker. Monopoly on the legitimate use of force/violence: peace of westphalia did not end all european con ict. England + allies vs. france + allies.
