Transcript The evolution of international society David Armstrong

The evolution of international
society
David Armstrong
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Liu yaozong
The idea of international society
-What is international society?
• State
• Sovereignty
• Equality
• Distinction based on features such as language, culture, or religion
• World government
-International law
• English school
Ancient worlds
• Greek
• India
• China
• Rome
• Trade and Treaties
The Christian and Islam orders
• Christian
- Catholic church
• Islam
-the abode of war vs the abode of Islam
Modern international society
• 15th
-post-medieval European international society.
-balance of power came strongly recognised
• 16th
-appearance of international law.
• The 30years war
-Europe last religious war.
• State actors
• Non-state actors
• Three central institutions of international society
 The Peace of Westphalia
-regarded as the key event ushering in the contemporary
international system.
 1648-1776
-international society has been taking shape.
 The American and French revolution
-sovereignty was vested in the ‘nation’ rather than a ‘ruler’.
 The WW1
 19th
The globalization of international society
• Post-war period
• UN
• The collapse of Soviet Union
• Do you think international society is under anarchy condition?
• UN as an important image of international society, however, does UN
represents the global government?
• Does the existence of UN really helped solving global issues?
International history
Len Scott
Introduction
• World War 1 brought the world into global society. (Also known as
the Great War)
-the first modern, industrialized total war.
-brought Russian, German, Austro-Hungary, Ottoman into history.
• World War 2 was more total in nature and global in scope.
-Atomic bomb-nuclear weapon come to history.
Modern Total War
• How the WW 1 began?
-the German Government to blame?
-the changing systemic factors?
Versailles Peace Treaty
-failed to tackle central problem of European security.
-over frustrating Germany
• The rise of Hitler
-same with the German leaders during the WW 1, but was particular philosophy of the Nazism and ideas of
racial supremacy and imperial expansion.
• The rise and fall of Japan
-invade China in 1937
-brought US into war with the Pearl Harbour attack.
-US-> atomic bombed Japan
End of Empire
• The belief of self-determination.
• Britain
-1947, India Independence
-50s, withdraw from Africa
-the decolonization was rather peace.
Nationalism or Communism?
-the prologue of the cold war.