Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Coercive Monopoly, Progressive Tax
4 Sep 2017
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External relates to other states, protects against external challenges. The complexity of medieval europe: fragmented and shifting pattern of feudal relationships, corporate actors: lords, clerics, townsdwellers, peasants, varied forms of rule, from city-states to empires, persistent competition between religious and secular authority. Ambitious leaders vied for territorial control, defined borders. War-making built up state capacity military, administrative, fiscal. Post-reformation conflict (16th and 17th centuries) justified stronger, sovereign states. Overall, distinguished: (i) domestic realm under state influence and (ii) international realm in which states competed (i) state from society and (ii) state from the international sphere (i) state-governed order and (ii) anarchy beyond. International relations: states within state system: begins with postulate of anarchy, examines state interactions in absence of rules and enforcement, has explored surprising sources of order norms. These two approaches were never fully separate war drove state formation.
