IR Lecture 5 Structure 3 Types of International Systems Full international systems Economic international systems Pre international systems Military Political Structure QUESTION o The normal form of the strategic international systems was hierarchical not anarchic The units didn t necessarily or even usually become structurally alike through shaping and shoving 2 types of hierarchal systems Suzerainty Dominion Why Not Neorealist Structure The imperial hierarchical form was both legitimate and unstable o Economic Structure Political Units were the main economic actors but did this mean that command as opposed to market economic structure prevailed universally o Socio Cultural Structure Religion International Society limited due to the interaction capacity A GLOBAL INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM I From 1500 the rise of the west transforms world history The key reasons the Europeans pioneered the MODERN State What preceded the rise of the modern stat Feudal Empires 650 950 Feudal Anarchy 950 1150 Feudal not yet modern states system 1150 1450 Heteronomy subordination or subjection to the law of another political subjection of a community or state opposed to AUTONOMY Essence of the modern state 1 It cultivated precise hard boundaries rather than fuzzy frontiers and within those boundaries it claimed absolute sovereignty 2 It was characterized by a COMBINATION of military extractive administrative redistributive and productive organizations governing multiple contiguous regions and their cities and MIXING CAPITAL AND COERCIAN
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