International System

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International System

• The pattern of relations between nation-states
  and non-state international actors

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Comparison

• Domestic Politics
• Formal
• Hierarchical
• Rules/regulations
• To produce justice
• Social contract

• International Politics
• Two Views
• Anarchy
• Institutionalization

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Categories of Comparison

• Central Authority
• Conflict Resolution and Force

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Domestic Politics Central AuthorityUS
Constitution

• THE PREAMBLE
• We the People of the United States, in Order to
  form a more perfect Union, establish Justice,
  insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the
  common defence, promote the general Welfare, and
  secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and
  our Posterity, do ordain and establish this
  Constitution for the United States of America.

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US Congress
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Presidency
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US Supreme Court
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International Politics Anarchy No Central
Authority
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Rules? Anarchy?

• Sovereignty
• Self-reliance
• Capability
• Might makes right

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ButInstitutions Central Authority in the
Making?

• Geneva Conventions
• International
• Criminal Court
• (Rome Statute)
• Kyoto Protocol
• International Whaling
• Commission
• World Intellectual
• Property Rights Org.

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Regional Organizations

• African Union (AU)
• Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC)
• Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
• The Commonwealth (The UK and nations that were
  former British colonies, but remain close to the
  UK economically and politically)
• Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO)
  Organization of Central Asian states, from Turkey
  to Kyrgyzstan
• Economic Community of West African States
  (ECOWAS)
• European Union (EU)
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
• Organization for Security and Cooperation in
  Europe (OSCE)
• Organization of American States (OAS)
• Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC)
• Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
  (OPEC) -- a cartel of oil producing nations that
  spans several regions. 
• Pacific Community (Pacific Island nations and
  territories)

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Conflict Resolution and Force

• Domestic Political System?

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Tradition in International System Anarchy?

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Continued Anarchy?
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Might Makes RightUS-Mexican War 1846-1847
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Japanese Constitution 1946

• Staff member Beate Sirota Gordon, then in her
  early twenties, still remembers the day well
  And one morning I came in..., it was ten a.m.
  and General Whitney head of the government
  section called us into a meeting room. It was
  too small for all of us. Some of us had to stand
  because there were about 25 of us. And he said,
  "You are now a constituent assemblyAnd you will
  write the Japanese constitution. You will write a
  draft and it will have to be done in a week."
  Well, I mean, we were stunned of course. But, on
  the other hand, when you're in the army and you
  get an order, you just do it. You just go ahead.
• From PBS, The American Experience, MacArthur.
  Available at http//www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/macarthu
  r/peopleevents/pandeAMEX102.html

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Instutionalization?International Conflict
Resolution and Regulation of the Use of Force

• United Nations
• Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical
  Weapons
• Russia-China Border
• WTO Dispute Resolution Mechanism
• International Court of Justice

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Old Enemies, New Friends

• China/Japan Germany/France

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The International System Evolves

• Anarchy Institutionalization
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