what: wine and cheese where: wemple student lounge when: oct. 7:30-10:30 why: have fun and learn!...
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Revisiting the Definition of the State Territory, force, laws and sovereignty Autonomous political unit Sovereignty Functions State and governmentTRANSCRIPT
WHAT: WINE AND CHEESEWHERE: WEMPLE STUDENT LOUNGE
WHEN: OCT. 7 @ 7:30-10:30WHY: HAVE FUN AND LEARN!
ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE CONTACT: EVAN KENYON [email protected] OR KINGS POLI SCI [email protected]
KINGS POLI SCI CLUB PRESENTS:
THE FACEOFF OF SENATORS
McCAIN VS OBAMA
THE STATE
Revisiting the Definition of the State
• Territory, force, laws and sovereignty• Autonomous political unit• Sovereignty• Functions• State and government
Theories of the State
• Pluralist• Elitist• State as autonomous
So where does that leave us?
• Fundamental building blocks of political science.
• Primary organizing method of politics in the global context
• The state and modernity
The State in Three Worlds
• First World: Legal Rationalist State• Second World: Russian and Chinese
Models (and the challenge of post-communism)
• The Third World: The Politics of Economics
– Oil exporters– Newly industrializing countries (NICs)– Least Developed Countries
• Oligarchy
The origins of the modern state
• Political change• Civil society• Modernization • Revolution
4 Historical Routes
• European liberal-democratic model• Fascist model• Communist model• Third World model
Revolutions in 3 worlds
• First World: France 1789• Second World: Russia 1917• Iran 1979